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Whore

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin, Hosea 4:14

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you, Deuteronomy 4:2

While our modern publications claim that a "whore" is a "harlot", a "courtesan", a "concubine", a "prostitute", "unlawful sexual commerce", "lewdness", "lewd intercourse", and "promiscuous sexual intercourse" [with "promiscuous" defined as "mingled", "confused", "undistinguished", "common", and "indiscriminate"], SCRIPTURE tells us that a "whore" is NONE of these, but is instead: 1) a woman who marries under the false pretext of being a virgin, 2) a woman who has sex with someone other than her husband, and 3) a woman who has sex with a man of another race.

Why can't Webster et. al. figure this out?!

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

This dictionary arbitrarily defines "whore" in such a way that it does not fit most of its Scriptural connotations:

"Any woman who has promiscuous sexual intercourse"

How would we know from that definition that Scripture states that a whore is a woman who marries under the pretext of being a virgin when she's not, Israelites "whoring after" non-Israelites, and having sex with someone who's not your husband? Could any of these be called "promiscuous sexual intercourse"? Not if Webster's 1828 Dictionary definition of "promiscuous" is accurate.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Promiscuous

PROMIS'CUOUS, a. [L.promiscuus; pro and misceo, to mix.]

1. Mingled; consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; confused; undistinguished; as a promiscuous crowd or mass.

A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot.

2. Common; indiscriminate; not restricted to an individual; as promiscuous love or intercourse.

There's nothing here that even hints at the Holy Bible definition of "whore", is there? How did Webster define whore in 1828, almost two centuries ago?: Whore

WHORE, n. Hore. [G. The correct orthography is hore.] A harlot; a courtesan; a concubine; a prostitute.

WHORE, v.i. [supra.] To have unlawful sexual commerce; to practice lewdness.

WHORE, v.t. To corrupt by lewd intercourse. [Little used.]

Again, why is this earlier definition of "whore" also so far out of context with the Holy Bible? And what caused this same dictionary company to CHANGE their definition so drastically? Why is it so difficult for an ENGLISH DICTIONARY to define "whore"? What can possibly be wrong with developers of dictionaries consulting SCRIPTURE before they commit these erroneous, misleading, and mostly FALSE statements to PRINT? About the only definition in all of these Webster's dictionaries that appears even close is "prostitute"--until you examine it more closely!

A Whore: LIES about Being a Virgin

In the following verse, the damsel to be stoned to death is a woman who married with the pretext that she was a virgin and it was proven that she was not:

Deuteronomy 22:21 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.

This has nothing to do with her manner of dress or speech or attitude, her language, age, whether or not she's "promiscuous" as defined by Webster, and EVERYTHING to do with protecting the holy seed by prohibiting non-virgins from presenting themselves as virgin wives to Israelite men.

Whoredom to Mix the Holy Seed

God had a particular problem with Israelites who "go a whoring" after the daughters of Molech, Ahab, Arabia, Egyptians, Assyrians, Moab, and gillul, indicating that our dictionary definitions now exclude the most important context of "whore", which is mixing the holy seed with non-Israelites, or "the peoples of the land":

Leviticus 20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

2 Chronicles 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were] better than thyself:

Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:28 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.

Ezekiel 20:29-31 Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols [read: gillul], even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

A Harlot is not a Whore

Judah ordered Tamar to be "burnt" when he believed she was "with child by whoredom". But when he discovered she "hath played the harlot", and that he was the father, he forgave her. Did he forgive her because he was the father, or because she was NOT "with child by whoredom" but instead was with child by harlotry? In other words, is whoredom the death penalty, but harlotry is not? If so, what's the difference?

Genesis 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

Was it a sin for Judah to hire a harlot? Apparently not, since he did and God didn't punish him for it. So Tamar "played the harlot" with Judah but was not a "whore". She was also not a virgin when Judah believed she was "with child by whoredom", because she was the widow of Er, Judah's firstborn son. So the "whoredom" which Judah believed caused her to be "with child" was simply sex with someone who was not her husband, which is why he ordered her to be put to death.

A Concubine is not a Whore

Judges 19:2 shows that a concubine was not a whore until she left her husband and spent four months at her father's house, so where did they get the idea that a concubine was a whore?

Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehem-judah, and was there four whole months.

If a concubine IS a whore, then how can she "play the whore"?

Priests are Not to Marry, Nor Let their Daughters Become, Whores:

Leviticus 19:29 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.

Leviticus 21:7 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.

Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Further Warnings Against Whoredom

Deuteronomy 23:17-18 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog [sodomite], into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Proverbs 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange [read: non-Israelite, or "nikro"] woman is a narrow pit.

Hosea 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Jeremiah 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Ezekiel 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Modified Tuesday, January 18, 2011