Whoredom
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.

2. (n.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
WHORE; WHOREDOM

hor, hor'-dum.

See CRIMES; HARLOT; PUNISHMENTS.

Greek
4202. porneia -- fornication
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: porneia Phonetic Spelling: (por-ni'-ah) Short
Definition: fornication, idolatry Definition: fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry ...
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Strong's Hebrew
2183. zenunim -- fornication
... whoredom. From zanah; adultery; figuratively, idolatry -- whoredom. see HEBREW
zanah. 2182, 2183. zenunim. 2184 . Strong's Numbers.
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2184. zenuth -- fornication
... whoredom. From zanah; adultery, ie (figuratively) infidelity, idolatry -- whoredom.
see HEBREW zanah. 2183, 2184. zenuth. 2185 . Strong's Numbers.
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8458. tachbulah -- direction, counsel
... Word Origin from chabal Definition direction, counsel NASB Word Usage counsels
(1), guidance (2), wise counsel (1), wise guidance (2). fornication, whoredom. ...
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2181. zanah -- to commit fornication, be a harlot
... cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot,
(cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a ...
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8457. taznuth -- fornication
... cut down. Or taznuth {taz-nooth'}; from zanah; harlotry, ie (figuratively) idolatry --
fornication, whoredom. see HEBREW zanah. 8456, 8457. taznuth. 8458 . ...
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Library

Whether one May Give Alms Out of Ill-Gotten Goods?
... But the profits from whoredom are filthy lucre; wherefore it was forbidden
(Dt.23:18) to offer therefrom sacrifices or oblations to God: "Thou shalt not offer ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether one may give alms.htm

They Indeed who Say that Baptism is not to be Repeated...
... hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee,
and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them ...
/.../writings in connection with the donatist controversy /chapter 19 25 they.htm

The Life of Mr. Walter Mill.
... Oliph. Thou speakest against pilgrimage, and sayest, It is a pilgrimage
to whoredom? Mill. I say pilgrimage is not commanded in ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr walter.htm

But the Devil, who Hates and Envies what is Good...
... he answered with a lamentable voice, I am the friend of whoredom, and have
taken upon me incitements which lead to it against the young. ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/life of antony section 5.htm

CHAP. I. -II. 3 (II. 1).
... For we cannot suppose that the children themselves are described as given to
whoredom. Such a thought would here be altogether out of place. ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chap i -ii 3 ii 1.htm

Whether Treachery, Fraud, Falsehood, Perjury, Restlessness ...
... sparing, tight-fisted, skinflints [*{kyminopristes}], misers [*{kimbikes}], who
do illiberal deeds," and of those who "batten on whoredom, usurers, gamblers ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether treachery fraud falsehood perjury.htm

Whether Christ Should have Been Born of an Espoused virgin?
... Now a virgin of the priestly tribe was condemned to death for whoredom; for we read
(Lev.21:9): "If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonor ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ should have been.htm

On the Sinful Woman.
... She put off and cast away from her body the tunic of fine linen of whoredom, and
resolved to go and attire herself in the tunic the garment of reconciliation. ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/on the sinful woman.htm

The Section Chap. I. -iii.
... Hence, the wife can be called a whoring wife, only on account of the whoredom which
she practised after her marriage. This is confirmed by chap. ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the section chap i -iii.htm

On the Article, and in one Holy Ghost, the Comforter, which Spake ...
... But sin also is called spirit, as I have already said; only in another and opposite
sense, as when it is said, The spirit of whoredom caused them to err [2017 ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xvi on the article.htm

Thesaurus
Whoredom (58 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WHORE; WHOREDOM. hor, hor'-dum. See CRIMES; HARLOT;
PUNISHMENTS. Multi-Version Concordance Whoredom (58 Occurrences). ...
/w/whoredom.htm - 24k

Whore (14 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WHORE; WHOREDOM. hor, hor'-dum. See CRIMES; HARLOT;
PUNISHMENTS. Multi-Version Concordance Whore (14 Occurrences). ...
/w/whore.htm - 11k

Idol-sacrifices (3 Occurrences)
... given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both
from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.' (YLT). ...
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Committing (30 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 6:18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit --
is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body ...
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Whoredoms (34 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
/w/whoredoms.htm - 17k

Kicketh (6 Occurrences)
... Hosea 4:14 Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit
adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And ...
/k/kicketh.htm - 8k

Gomer (7 Occurrences)
... Gomer according to Divine appointment, and this was the beginning of God's word
to him (Hosea 1:3; Hosea 3:1-4). She was to be a wife of whoredom and they were ...
/g/gomer.htm - 11k

Infamy (8 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 19:29 Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the
land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy. (DBY). ...
/i/infamy.htm - 9k

Inhabiting (23 Occurrences)
... Revelation 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk
from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;' (YLT). ...
/i/inhabiting.htm - 13k

Departing (20 Occurrences)
... And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children
of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the ...
/d/departing.htm - 12k

Resources
What was the “spirit of prostitution” in Hosea 4:12? | GotQuestions.org

Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute (Hosea 1:2)? | GotQuestions.org

What is sexual immorality? | GotQuestions.org

Whoredom: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Whoredom (58 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:32
but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.
(YLT)

Matthew 19:9
And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'
(YLT)

John 8:41
ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'
(YLT)

Acts 15:20
but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
(YLT)

Acts 15:29
to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'
(YLT)

Acts 21:25
And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'
(YLT)

Romans 1:29
having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
(YLT)

1 Corinthians 5:1
Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --
(YLT)

1 Corinthians 6:13
the meats 'are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body 'is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
(YLT)

1 Corinthians 6:18
flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
(YLT)

1 Corinthians 7:2
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
(YLT)

1 Corinthians 10:8
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
(YLT)

2 Corinthians 12:21
lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.
(YLT)

Galatians 5:19
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
(YLT)

Ephesians 5:3
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
(YLT)

Colossians 3:5
Put to death, then, your members that 'are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
(YLT)

1 Thessalonians 4:3
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
(YLT)

Revelation 2:14
But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
(YLT)

Revelation 2:21
and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;
(YLT)

Revelation 14:8
And another messenger did follow, saying, 'Fall, fall, did Babylon, the great city, because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom she hath given to all nations to drink.'
(YLT)

Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'
(YLT)

Revelation 17:4
and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,
(YLT)

Revelation 18:9
and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning,
(YLT)

Revelation 19:2
because true and righteous 'are' His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'
(YLT)

Genesis 38:24
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
(KJV ASV)

Leviticus 19:29
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
(KJV ASV DBY)

Leviticus 20:5
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
(KJV DBY)

Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
(KJV)

Judges 19:2
and commit whoredom against him doth his concubine, and she goeth from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days -- four months.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 21:11
also, he hath made high places in the mountains of Judah, and causeth the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom, and compelleth Judah.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 21:13
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
(Root in KJV YLT)

Psalms 106:39
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
(YLT)

Isaiah 57:3
And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 3:1
Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 3:9
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
(KJV ASV)

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ezekiel 16:17
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
(KJV)

Ezekiel 16:25
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.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:26
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:29
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
(ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:33
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.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 20:30
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
(KJV)

Ezekiel 23:3
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
(Root in KJV DBY)

Ezekiel 23:8
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.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:17
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.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ezekiel 23:27
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 43:7
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Hosea 2:4
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Hosea 4:10
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
(KJV DBY)

Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
(KJV YLT)

Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
(KJV DBY)

Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
(KJV DBY)

Hosea 5:4
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
(Root in KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Hosea 6:10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Subtopics

Whoredom

Whoredom: Figurative

Whoredom: Licentious Rites of, in Idolatrous Worship

Related Terms

Whore (14 Occurrences)

Idol-sacrifices (3 Occurrences)

Committing (30 Occurrences)

Whoredoms (34 Occurrences)

Kicketh (6 Occurrences)

Gomer (7 Occurrences)

Infamy (8 Occurrences)

Inhabiting (23 Occurrences)

Departing (20 Occurrences)

Madest (18 Occurrences)

Marital (4 Occurrences)

Maddening (2 Occurrences)

Spouses (2 Occurrences)

Carcases (24 Occurrences)

Carcasses (30 Occurrences)

Practise (52 Occurrences)

Multiply (98 Occurrences)

Commit (142 Occurrences)

Played (50 Occurrences)

Harlotry (37 Occurrences)

Lust (42 Occurrences)

Eating (151 Occurrences)

Whatever (411 Occurrences)

Defiled (119 Occurrences)

Harlotries (22 Occurrences)

Neighings (2 Occurrences)

Useless (47 Occurrences)

Jez'ebel (19 Occurrences)

Gilded (2 Occurrences)

Gomor'rah (23 Occurrences)

Whores (2 Occurrences)

Whoring (17 Occurrences)

Israelites (468 Occurrences)

Traffic (12 Occurrences)

Reformed (5 Occurrences)

Ephraim's (14 Occurrences)

Elms (1 Occurrence)

Matter (263 Occurrences)

Passionately (2 Occurrences)

Practiced (22 Occurrences)

Phinehas (24 Occurrences)

Committest (3 Occurrences)

Compelleth (2 Occurrences)

Abominable (52 Occurrences)

Shared (21 Occurrences)

Sanctified (105 Occurrences)

Smite (230 Occurrences)

Scarlet-colour (1 Occurrence)

Save (375 Occurrences)

Reform (28 Occurrences)

Givest (31 Occurrences)

Hirest (1 Occurrence)

Believers (50 Occurrences)

Habitual (9 Occurrences)

Breasts (39 Occurrences)

Lewdness (68 Occurrences)

Bruised (36 Occurrences)

Entirely (39 Occurrences)

Earthly (39 Occurrences)

Harlot (87 Occurrences)

Affirmation (335 Occurrences)

Holding (62 Occurrences)

Age-during (167 Occurrences)

Regard (230 Occurrences)

Polluted (80 Occurrences)

Likewise (149 Occurrences)

Crimes (22 Occurrences)

Justice (212 Occurrences)

Cleansed (76 Occurrences)

Crime (45 Occurrences)

Strong (736 Occurrences)

Play (61 Occurrences)

Detestable (121 Occurrences)

Harlots (11 Occurrences)

Humiliate (3 Occurrences)

Calling (145 Occurrences)

Shadow (72 Occurrences)

Causeth (209 Occurrences)

Hosea (6 Occurrences)

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