KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A woman who engages in prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse. Sense 2: Figuratively, a city or people portrayed as unfaithful.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 19:29
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
¶ Doe not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land fall to whoredome, and the land become full of wickednesse.
1611 marginal noteHebr. prophane.
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane, neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy vnto his God.
¶ And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
¶ And the daughter of any Priest, if she profane her selfe, by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: shee shall be burnt with fire.
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Then they shall bring out the damosell to the doore of her fathers house, and the men of her city shal stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her fathers house: so shalt thou put euill away from among you.
¶ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
¶ There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sonnes of Israel.
1611 marginal noteOr, Sodomitesse.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dogge into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for euen both these are abomination vnto the LORD thy God.
And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.
And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Bethlehem Iudah, and was there foure whole moneths.
1611 marginal noteOr, a yeere and foure moneths. Heb. dayes, foure moneths.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
1611 marginal noteChap.22.14.
¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
¶ But draw neere hither, yee sonnes of the sorceresse, the seed of the adulterer, and the whore.
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.
Thou hast played the whoore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast vnsatiable: yea thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To practise unlawful sexual intercourse or lewdness.
A harlot or prostitute.
