# H2181 זָנָה

זָנָה (zânâh), Strong’s H2181: to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the… KJV: (cause…

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*zânâh* — to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the…

KJV: (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the)…

Occurs 93 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- זָנָה vb. commit fornication, be a harlot
- Qal
- 1 be or act as a harlot
- 2 fig. of improper intercourse with foreign nations
- 3 of intercourse with other deities
- 4 of moral defection
- Pu. fornication was not done (in going) after thee
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to commit fornication
- 2 commit fornication

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 34:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=31) — They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
- [Genesis 38:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=15) — When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
- [Genesis 38:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=24) — About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold…
- [Exodus 34:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=15) — “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice…
- [Exodus 34:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=16) — and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your…
- [Leviticus 17:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/17?v=7) — They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a…
- [Leviticus 19:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=29) — “‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full…
- [Leviticus 20:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/20?v=5) — then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute…
- [Leviticus 20:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/20?v=6) — “‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my…
- [Leviticus 21:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/21?v=7) — “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her…