zanah: to commit fornication, be a harlot
Original Word: זָנָה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: zanah
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-naw')
Short Definition: harlot
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to commit fornication, be a harlot
NASB Translation
adulterous (1), become a harlot (1), commit adultery (1), commits flagrant harlotry (1), fall to harlotry (1), harlot (22), harlot continually (1), harlot's (2), harlot's* (2), harlot* (3), harlotry (3), harlots (5), making her a harlot (1),
play the harlot (18),
play the harlot continually (1),
played the harlot (24),
playing the harlot (3),
plays the harlot (1), prostitute (1), unfaithful (1).
What does it matter where they learned it?
Are you shifting the blame to someone else?
Did God say they had played the harlot or not?
Now we just have to find out why you are terrified to admit what playing the harlot means.
Definition: Harlot
Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.[Wordnet]
2. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.[Websters]
3. A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.[Websters]
4. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.[Websters].
Verb 1. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.[Websters]
2. Base verb from the following inflections: harlotting, harlotted, harlots, harlotter, harlotters, harlottingly and harlottedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
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The "true" harlots"?
No, israel played the harlot, was the harlot, committed whoredoms, fornicated, committed idolatry with HER LOVERS, gentile nations with their pagan ways. Israel was the harlot.
Which pagan gentile nation is God talking to here:
Ezekiel 16
8“Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares the Lord GOD. 9“Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. 10“I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11“I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. 12“I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13“Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14“Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord GOD.
15“
But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing. 16“
You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen...
you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot
You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them
17“You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you,
and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them. 18“Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. 19“Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord GOD. 20“Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured.
Were your harlotries so small a matter? 21“You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire. 22“Besides
all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
Who is God speaking about?
Babylon, Rome, Assyria, London, New York?
Therefore,
O harlot, hear the word of the LORD. - Ezekiel 16:35
Rome?
Saudi Arabia?
France?
Why do you argue with God?
Therefore,
O harlot, hear the word of the LORD. - Ezekiel 16:35
To commit fornication is metaphorically used for to practice idolatry (Jeremiah 3:1; Ezek. 16:15; Hosea throughout); hence Jerusalem is spoken of as a harlot (Isaiah 1:21).
Greek
Greek4202. porneia, por-ni'-ah; from Grk4203; harlotry (includ. adultery and incest); fig. idolatry:-fornication.
Greek4203. porneuo, porn-yoo'-o; from Grk4204; to act the harlot, i.e. (lit.) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (fig.) practise idolatry:-commit (fornication).
Greek4204. porne, por'-nay; fem. of Grk4205; a strumpet; fig. an idolater:-harlot, whore.
Greek4205. pornos, por'-nos; from pernemi (to sell; akin to the base of Grk4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by anal.) a debauchee (libertine):-fornicator, whoremonger.
Hebrew2181. zanah, zaw-naw'; a prim. root [highly fed and therefore wanton]; to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); fig. to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah):-(cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Zanah zaw-naw'
Parts of Speech TWOT
Verb 563
Definition
to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot
(Qal)
to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication
to commit adultery
to be a cult prostitute
to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.)
(Pual) to play the harlot
(Hiphil)
to cause to commit adultery
to force into prostitution
to commit fornication
Translated Words
KJV (93) - ...harlot, 36; ...whoredom, 15; commit, 1; commit fornication, 3; continually, 1; go a whoring, 19; great, 1; harlot + (0802), 2; whore, 11; whore's + (0802), 1; whorish, 3;
NAS (69) - adulterous, 1; become a harlot, 1; commit adultery, 1; commits flagrant harlotry, 1; fall to harlotry, 1; harlot, 3; harlot continually, 1; harlot's, 2; harlotry, 3; harlots, 5; making her a harlot, 1; play the harlot, 18; play the harlot continually, 1; played the harlot, 24; playing the harlot, 3; plays the harlot, 1; prostitute, 1; unfaithful, 1;
Karaite Judaism ackonwledges Israel was the harlot:
http://www.karaitejudaism.org/talks/Harlotry _in_The_Tanakh.pdf