Zanah [Strong's 2181], is adulteress, or race mixer

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Zanah [Strong's 2181], is adulteress, or race mixer

Lev 21:14 A widow,^{490 or a divorced woman,1644 or profane,2491
or a harlot,2181
(853) these428
shall he not3808 take:3947
but3588, 518 he shall take3947 a virgin1330 of his own
people4480, 5971 to wife.802}

Jdg 11:1 Now Jephthah^{3316 the
Gileadite1569 was1961
a mighty man1368 of valor,2428 and he1931 was the son1121
of a harlot:802, 2181 and Gilead1568 begot3205 (853) Jephthah.3316}

Jdg 11:2 And Gilead's^{1568 wife802 bore3205 him
sons;1121 and his wife's802 sons1121 grew up,1431 and they thrust out1644
(853) Jephthah,3316
and said559 unto him, Thou shalt not3808 inherit5157 in our
father's1 house;1004
for3588 thou859
art the son1121
of a strange312 woman.802}

H2181

za^na^h

zaw-naw'

A primitive root (highly fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple forniciation, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah): - (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

H802

'ishsha^h na^shi^ym

ish-shaw', naw-sheem'

The first form is the feminine of H376 or H582; the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H582).: - [adulter]ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

H312

'ache^r

akh-air'

From H309; properly hinder; generally next, other, etc.: - (an-) other (man), following, next, strange.

Probably zonah should be rendered as in Jos_2:1, a hostess, or inn-keeper, so Targum of Jonathan, wehoo bar ittetha pundekeetha, "and he was the son of a woman, a tavern-keeper." She was very probably a Canaanite, as she is called, Jdg_11:2, a strange woman, ishah achereth, "a woman of another race;" and on this account his brethren drove him from the family, as not having a full right to the inheritance

Modified Tuesday, January 18, 2011