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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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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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.
H2181
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.
H2181
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.
H2181
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.
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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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