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whoredom

Meaning of “whoredom”

Sense 1: Sexual immorality or prostitution. Sense 2: By figure in passages that make the application, idolatrous or covenant unfaithfulness.

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22 occurrences22 verses6 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 38:24

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Ezekiel 23:17
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 23:17 · retained source text

And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, and they defiled her with their whoredome, and shee was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. children of Babel.

1611 marginal noteHebr. loosed or disioynted.

Ezekiel 23:27
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 23:27 · retained source text

Thus will I make thy lewdnesse to cease from thee, and thy whoredome brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

Ezekiel 43:7
¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 43:7 · retained source text

¶ And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feete, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for euer, and my holy Name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredome, nor by the carkeises of their kings in their high places.

Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 43:9 · retained source text

Now let them put away their whoredome, and the carkeises of their kings farre from me, and I wil dwell in the middest of them for euer.

Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Hosea 1:2 · retained source text

The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea: and the LORD sayd to Hosea, Goe, take vnto thee a wife of whoredomes, and children of whoredomes: for the land hath committed great whoredome, departing from the LORD.

Hosea 4:10
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:10 · retained source text

For they shall eate, and not haue enough: they shall commit whordome, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heed to the LORD.

Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:11 · retained source text

Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away the heart.

Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:13 · retained source text

They sacrifice vpon the tops of the mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder okes and poplars, and elmes, because the shadowe thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredome, and your spouses shall commit adulterie.

Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:14 · retained source text

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whordome, nor your spouses when they commit adulterie: for themselues are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therfore the people that doth not vnderstand, shall fall.

1611 marginal noteOr, shall I not? &c.

1611 marginal noteOr, be punished.

Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:18 · retained source text

Their drinke is sowre: they haue committed whordome continually: her rulers with shame doe loue, Giue ye.

1611 marginal noteHebr. is gone.

1611 marginal noteHebr. shields.

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