Original Language Studio
Judges 19:2
“And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth–lehem–judah, and was there four whole months.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
זָנָהzânâh · zaw-naw'
H2181 · Hebrew
H2181 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
- Derivation
- a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton);
- KJV renderings
- (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּזְנֶ֤ה — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 93 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 34:31Genesis 38:15Genesis 38:24Exodus 34:15Exodus 34:16
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read זָנָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.