זְנוּת
ze.nut (H2184)
fornication
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The Hebrew word זְנוּת, transliterated as "ze.nut", has a short definition of "fornication". This term suggests physical intimacy outside the boundaries of marriage, specifically between two people who are not legally committed to each other. The word occurs nine times in the Bible. This limited usage suggests a specific focus on the theme of fornication, implying its significance to the biblical authors. Given its concise definition, the context in which "ze.nut" appears is crucial for understanding its meaning and application. It is essential to examine the surrounding text to grasp the nuances of this term in different biblical passages.
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Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”
Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’
He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.