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harlot

Meaning of “harlot”

Sense 1: A woman who practises prostitution or sexual unfaithfulness. Sense 2: Figuratively, a person, city, or nation portrayed as unfaithful.

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40 occurrences38 verses16 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 34:31

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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Joel 3:3 · retained source text

And they haue cast lots for my people, and haue giuen a boy for a harlot, and solde a girle for wine, that they might drinke.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Amos 7:17 · retained source text

Therfore thus sayth the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be diuided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely goe into captiuitie foorth of his land.

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.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Micah 1:7 · retained source text

And all the grauen images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idoles therof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall returne to the hire of an harlot.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Nahum 3:4 · retained source text

Because of the multitude of the whoredomes of the wel-fauoured harlot, the mistresse of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredomes, and families through her witchcrafts.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 6:15 · retained source text

Know yee 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.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 6:16 · retained source text

What, know ye not that he which is ioyned to an harlot, is one body? for two (saith he) shalbe one flesh.

Hebrews 11:31
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Hebrews 11:31 · retained source text

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that beleeued not, when shee had receiued the spies with peace.

1611 marginal noteOr, that were disobedient.

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?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · James 2:25 · retained source text

Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot iustified by works, when she had receiued the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

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