# H8457 תַּזְנוּת

תַּזְנוּת (taznûwth), Strong’s H8457: harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry KJV: fornication, whoredom.. Occurs 20 times.

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*taznûwth* — harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry

KJV: fornication, whoredom.

Derived from [זָנָה zânâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H2181) (to commit adultery)

Occurs 20 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [תַּזְנוּת] n.f.abstr. fornication

## Where it occurs
- [Ezekiel 16:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=15) — “‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution…
- [Ezekiel 16:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=20) — “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to…
- [Ezekiel 16:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=22) — In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and…
- [Ezekiel 16:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=25) — You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened…
- [Ezekiel 16:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=26) — You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your…
- [Ezekiel 16:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=29) — You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Kasdimah; and yet you weren’t satisfied…
- [Ezekiel 16:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=33) — People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to…
- [Ezekiel 16:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=34) — You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas…
- [Ezekiel 16:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=36) — ‘The Lord GOD says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution…
- [Ezekiel 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=7) — She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols…