Genesis 34:31
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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Harlot
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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?
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9 occurrences in 9 verses.
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זָנָה
zânâh · zaw-naw'
31 times translated as this KJV form92 total Strong's occurrences
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)
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
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Strong's first: Genesis 34:31Strong's last: Nahum 3:4
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pórnē · por'-nay
4 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater
Strong's KJV usage: :--harlot, whore.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 6:15Strong's last: James 2:25
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qᵉdêshâh · ked-ay-shaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a female devotee (i.e. prostitute)
Strong's KJV usage: harlot, whore.
Strong's first: Genesis 38:21Strong's last: Genesis 38:22
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ʼishshâh · ish-shaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form778 total Strong's occurrences
a woman
Strong's KJV usage: (adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Strong's first: Judges 11:1Strong's last: Judges 16:1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
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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.
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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
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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.
H2181
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.
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harlot
H'ARLOT, noun
1. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman.
2. In Scripture, one who forsakes the true God and worships idols. Isaiah 1:21.
3. A servant; a rogue; a cheat.
H'ARLOT, adjective Wanton; lewd; low; base.
H'ARLOT, verb intransitive To practice lewdness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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