- זְנוּת
- זְנוּתf. (b. h.; זָנָה) prostitution, unchastity, voluptuousness. Sot.IX, 15 (49b) בית הועד יהיה לז׳ (= לבית ז׳) the scholars meeting house shall become a place of licentiousness (where low people assemble). Num. R. s. 13 על ז׳ אחותו for seducing his sister. Ab. Zar.36b דרך ז׳ a meretricious connection, opp. אִישוּת. Gen. R. s. 26 על הכל … חוץ מן הז׳.… the Lord is long-suffering to everything except debauchery. Keth.3a, v. בְּעִילָה; a. v. fr.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.