2154. zimmah
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zimmah: a plan, device, wickedness
Original Word: זִמָּה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: zimmah
Phonetic Spelling: (zim-maw')
Short Definition: lewdness

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from zamam
Definition
a plan, device, wickedness
NASB Translation
acts of lewdness (1), crime (1), devising (1), evil intent (1), immorality (2), lewd (3), lewdly (1), lewdness (13), lustful crime (1), plans (1), wicked scheme (1), wicked schemes (1), wickedness (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. זִמָּה noun feminine plan, device, wickedness — absolute ׳ז Leviticus 18:17 17t.; construct זִמַּת Proverbs 24:9 2t.; suffix זִמָּתֵךְ Ezekiel 16:58 + 3t.; זִמַּתְכֶ֫נָֿה Ezekiel 23:48,49; plural זמּוֺת Isaiah 32:7, suffix זִמֹּתַי Job 17:11; —

1 plan, purpose Job 17:3; elsewhere always

2 in bad sense:

a. evil device Isaiah 32:7 (with יעִץ, followed by לְחַבֵּל); זִמַּת אִוֶּלֶת Proverbs 24:9; compare Psalm 26:10 ("" שֹׁחַד), Psalm 119:150.

b. wickedness in act ׳עשׂה ז Hosea 6:9 (where murder in context), Proverbs 10:23; Proverbs 21:27 compare Now. Especially

c. of unchastity: incest Leviticus 18:17; Leviticus 20:14 (twice in verse), licentiousness Leviticus 19:29 (all H), Judges 20:6 ("" נְבָלָה), adultery Job 31:11; frequently (mostly Ezekiel) metaphor of idolatry of people under figure of harlotry and adultery Jeremiah 13:27 (זִמַּת זְנוּתֵךְ), Ezekiel 16:27 (דַּרְכֵךְ זִמָּה), Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 16:58 (both "" תּוֺעֵבָה), Ezekiel 22:9 (with עשׂה), Ezekiel 22:11 (טִמֵּא בְּזִמָּה, "" תועבה), Ezekiel 23:21,27 ("" זְנוּתֵךְ), Ezekiel 23:29 (עֶרְוַת זְנוּנַיִךְ וְזִמָּתֵךְ וְתַזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), Ezekiel 23:35 ("" תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), Ezekiel 23:44 (׳אִשּׁוֺת הַזּ, Co ׳לעשׂות ז), Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 23:49 ("" חֲטָאֵי גִלּוּלֵיכֶן), Ezekiel 24:13. [In Ezekiel 16:27,43; Ezekiel 24:13 strike out Co, chiefly on internal grounds.]



Strong's
heinous crime, lewdly mischief, wicked device

Or zammah {zam-maw'}; from zamam; a plan, especially a bad one -- heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

see HEBREW zamam

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