Words the Bible translates as whoredom
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- porneiaπορνείαsexual wrongdoing: sexual activity outside the bounds the Old Testament law sets for marriage
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- spiritual unfaithfulness: turning from God to idols, pictured as a wife's adultery or a prostitute's trade
- taznutתַּזְנוּתharlotry: repeated, brazen acts of promiscuous unfaithfulness, pictured as a wife who sells herself to anyone
- zanunזְנוּנִיםfaithless sexual conduct treated as a settled condition: harlotry used literally once, and far more often as a picture of breaking faith with God
- zenutזְנוּתpromiscuous sexual immorality, used above all as a picture of unfaithfulness to God
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