Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
fornication
Usage: fornication, harlotry
Taznuth means “fornication” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8457 תַּזנוּת תַּזנוּת (taznuwth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. taznuwth (taz-nooth') (or taznuth {taz-nooth'}) n-f. 1. harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry [from H2181] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include whoredoms, whoredom, fornication, and fornications. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
taznuwth (taz-nooth') (or taznuth {taz-nooth'}) n-f. 1. harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry [from H2181] KJV: fornication, whoredom. Root(s): H2181
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fornication
Usage: fornication, harlotry
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render taznuwth, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8457.
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8457, grouped by book.
Taznuth (Strong's H8457) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fornication". taznuwth (taz-nooth') (or taznuth {taz-nooth'}) n-f. 1. harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry [from H2181]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H8457 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8457 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as whoredoms, whoredom, fornication, and fornications. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.