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Harlot

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Greek G4203 porneúō

Original: πορνεύω

Meaning:
from πόρνη; to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry:--commit (fornication).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry:--commit (fornication).

Hebrew H2181 zânâh

Original: זָנָה

Meaning:
a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); to 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); (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: (cause to) commit fornication, [idiom] continually, [idiom] great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

Hebrew H6948 qᵉdêshâh

Original: קְדֵשָׁה

Meaning:
feminine of קָדֵשׁ; a female devotee (i.e. prostitute); harlot, whore.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: harlot, whore.

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^{Genesis 34:31} And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? Open

^{Genesis 38:15} When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. Open

^{Genesis 38:21} Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place. Open

^{Genesis 38:22} And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place. Open

^{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. Open

^{Leviticus 21:14} A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. Open

^{Joshua 2:1} And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. Open

^{Joshua 6:17} And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. Open

^{Joshua 6:22} But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. Open

^{Joshua 6:25} And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. Open

^{Judges 11:1} Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. Open

^{Judges 16:1} Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Open

^{Proverbs 7:10} And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. Open

^{Isaiah 1:21} How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Open

^{Isaiah 23:15} And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Open

^{Isaiah 23:16} Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Open

^{Jeremiah 2:20} For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Open

^{Jeremiah 3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Open

^{Jeremiah 3:6} The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. Open

^{Jeremiah 3:8} And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. Open

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^{Ezekiel 16:15} 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. Open

^{Ezekiel 16:16} And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Open

^{Ezekiel 16:28} Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. Open

^{Ezekiel 16:31} In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; Open

^{Ezekiel 16:35} Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: Open

^{Ezekiel 16:41} And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. Open

^{Ezekiel 23:5} And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Open

^{Ezekiel 23:19} 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. Open

^{Ezekiel 23:44} Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. Open

^{Hosea 2:5} For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. Open

^{Hosea 3:3} And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee. Open

^{Hosea 4:15} Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. Open

^{Joel 3:3} And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Open

^{Amos 7:17} Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. Open

^{Micah 1:7} And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. Open

^{Nahum 3:4} Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Open

^{1 Corinthians 6:15} Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Open

^{1 Corinthians 6:16} What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. Open

^{Hebrews 11:31} By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. Open

^{James 2:25} Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? Open

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