תַּזְנוּתtaznûwth

Meanings

Same root

• זָנָהzânâh · H2181to 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)

Where it appears

Appears 20 times in the Bible.

• Ezekiel 16:15 “But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking.
• Ezekiel 16:20 “Then you took your sons and daughters—the children you had borne to me—and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough?
• Ezekiel 16:22 In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood.
• Ezekiel 16:25 On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.
• Ezekiel 16:26 Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, provoking my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
• Ezekiel 16:29 You added to your lovers by embracing Babylonia, the land of merchants, but you still weren’t satisfied.