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zny vb. to commit adultery, fornication
GDCGtDt
Gpəˁalto commit adultery, fornication2 senses▶
1
to commit adultery, fornication
JLAtg, Sam, Man
TgO Gen38:24↗ זְנִיאַת תָמָר‏ : Tamar has committed adultery † ; SamTgJ Gen38:24↗ זנת תמר כלתך‏ ; SamTgJ Num25:1↗ ושרי עמה למזני עם בנאת מואב‏ : the people began fornicate with the Moabite girls ; SidraDNishmata 75.106:10↗ text not cited
(1)
(land) to be full of fornication
PTA
TN Lev19:29↗ דלא תזני ארעה ותתמלי ארעא בנין דזנו‏
2
to act treacherously
Sam, Syr
SamTgJ Lev20:5↗ למזני בתר מלכה מבגו עמהון‏ ; SyrAm2:55↗ ܘܫܐܕܐ ܙܐܢܝܐ ܘܛܥܝܡܘܬܐ‏
Dpaˁˁelto commit adultery, act promiscuously (pl.)1 sense▶
to commit adultery, act promiscuously (pl.)
JLAtg, PTA, CPA, Syr, JBAmb, JBA, Man, LJLA
TgJ Jer29:23↗ וְזַנִיאוּ יָת נְשֵי חַברֵיהוֹן‏ ; TgJ Hos3:1↗ דְאִינוּן דָמַן לְאִתְתָא דִרחִימָא עַל בַעלַה וֻמזַנְיָא עֲלוֹהִי‏ : they are like a woman beloved by her husband who repeatedly commits adultery against him ; FTV Num25:1↗ ושרון עמא למזניא עם בנתהון דמואבאי‏ : the people began to act promiscuously with the Moabite girls ; P Gn38:24↗ ܙܢܝܬ ܬܡܪ ܟܠܬܟ‏ ; JBAmb2 95:1↗ ומזנן ומשגרין ורחמין זימתא וזנותא‏ : they act promiscuously and are overheated and love licentiousness and fornication ; BT Sot 26a(43)↗ זנויי זנאי, ו<הא> ٠٠٠ לא בדקי לה מיא כי אורחיה משום דבאונס זנאי‏ : she did commit adultery, but here the water does not test her as usual because she was adulterous under duress ; SOZ 73:6↗ ואשכחונון ٠٠٠ קא מזנאן בבית מלכי פרסאי‏ : they found them prostituting themselves in the palace of the Persian kings ; HP Sassoon(1) 128.22↗ דזינוי בעלמא הוא דזניאת‏ : she merely acted very promiscuously (and is not considered married) ; SidraDNishmata 75.106:10 ↗ ia ḏzania umzania : O ye that fornicate and are promiscuous ; PJ Gen14:2↗ שמאבר דמחבל איבריה ליזניה‏ : PN, who ruins his member in order to act promiscuously
Cˀafˁelto induce in treachery1 sense▶
to induce in treachery
Sam
Gtˀeṯpəˁelto be a prostitute1 sense▶
to be a prostitute
Sam
SamTgJ Lev21:9↗ וברת גבר כהן כד תרשי למזדנאה‏ : [Heb.: ובת איש כהן כי תחל לזנות]
Dtˀeṯpaˁˁalto be a prostitute1 sense▶
to be a prostitute
Syr
IA1 236:v251 text not cited
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Note that in JLAtg the G stem is explicitly a one time act as opposed to the D stem, whereas in Samaritan the G is used for both.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 388[200]DJPA: 179bDJBA: 418aJastrow: 406Drower/Macuch: 169b, 160aPayne-Smith: 1139J. Payne-Smith: 118Levy Ch-W: 1:225Tal Sam: 235DCPA[Schulthess]: 111[56]

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