Strong H2154זִמָּה

wickedness

Transliteration: zimmâh zammâh
Pronunciation: {zim-maw'} zam-maw'
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From H2161; a {plan} especially a bad one: - heinous {crime} lewd ({-ly} {-ness}) {mischief} {purpose} {thought} wicked ({device} {mind} -ness).

Detailed definition

1) plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose
1a) plan, purpose
1b) evil device, wickedness
1c) not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry

In the Bible

Strong H2154 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

lewdness12
mischief3
wickedness3
lewd2
wicked2
cause1
crime1
hath1
make1
purpose1
thought1

First verses

Leviticus 18:17
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
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 20:14
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Judges 20:6
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job 31:11
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Psalms 26:10
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Psalms 119:150
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Proverbs 10:23
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Proverbs 24:9
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Isaiah 32:7
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Ezekiel 16:27
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Ezekiel 16:43
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 16:58
Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:9
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:11
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 23:21
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
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.

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