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Lexicon :: Strong's H5003 - nā'ap̄

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נָאַף
Transliteration
nā'ap̄
Pronunciation
naw-af'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1273

Strong’s Definitions

נָאַף nâʼaph, naw-af'; a primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize:—adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's H5003 in the following manner: adultery (17x), adulterer (8x), adulteress (4x), adulterous (1x), women that break wedlock (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's H5003 in the following manner: adultery (17x), adulterer (8x), adulteress (4x), adulterous (1x), women that break wedlock (1x).

  1. to commit adultery

    1. (Qal)

      1. to commit adultery

        1. usually of man

          1. always with wife of another

        2. adultery (of women) (participle)

      2. idolatrous worship (fig.)

    2. (Piel)

      1. to commit adultery

        1. of man

        2. adultery (of women) (participle)

      2. idolatrous worship (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָאַף nâʼaph, naw-af'; a primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize:—adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.
STRONGS H5003: Abbreviations
† [נאַף] verb commit adultery (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic נְאַף (rare)): —
Qal Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִנְאַף Leviticus 20:10 (twice in verse); 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּנְאָ֑פוּ Jeremiah 5:7 3 times Imperfect; Infinitive absolute נָאוֺף Jeremiah 23:14; נָאֹף Hosea 4:2; Jeremiah 7:9; Participle נֹאֵף Proverbs 6:32; Job 24:15; feminine singular נֹאָ֑פֶת Leviticus 20:10; feminine plural נֹאֲפוֺת Ezekiel 16:38 2 times; —
1. literally commit adultery:
a. usually of man, always with wife of another; with accusative woman, Leviticus 20:10 (twice in verse) (H), Proverbs 6:32; elsewhere absolute Exodus 20:14 = Deuteronomy 5:17 (Ten Words), Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 23:14; Hosea 4:2; participle masculine Leviticus 20:10 (H), Job 24:15.
b. of women, only participle Leviticus 20:10 (H), Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 23:45 (twice in verse).
2. figurative of idolatrous worship, את האבן ואת העץ Jeremiah 3:9.
Piel Perfect 3rd person feminine singular נִאֲפָה Jeremiah 3:8; 3rd person masculine plural נִאֵ֑פוּ Ezekiel 23:37 (twice in verse); Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural יְנַאֲפוּ Jeremiah 29:23; 3rd person feminine plural תְּנָאַפְנָה Hosea 4:13,14; Participle מְנָאֵף Isaiah 57:3; plural מְנָאֲפִים Jeremiah 9:1 4 times; feminine מְנָאָ֑פֶת Proverbs 30:20 2 times; —
1. literally commit adultery:
a. of man, with accusative woman, Jeremiah 29:23; absolute Ezekiel 23:37; pt plural Jeremiah 9:2; Jeremiah 23:10; Hosea 7:4; Malachi 3:5; Psalm 50:18.
b. of woman, absolute Hosea 4:13,14; participle Hosea 3:1; Proverbs 30:20; plural Ezekiel 16:32.
2. figurative of idolatrous worship, אֶתגִּֿלּוּלֵיהֶם Ezekiel 23:37; absolute Jeremiah 3:8, זֶאֶרַע מְנָאֵף Isaiah 57:3.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

20:14

Leviticus

20:10; 20:10; 20:10; 20:10; 20:10

Deuteronomy

5:17

Job

24:15; 24:15

Psalms

50:18

Proverbs

6:32; 6:32; 30:20; 30:20

Isaiah

57:3; 57:3

Jeremiah

3:8; 3:8; 3:9; 5:7; 5:7; 7:9; 7:9; 9:1; 9:2; 23:10; 23:14; 23:14; 29:23; 29:23

Ezekiel

16:32; 16:38; 16:38; 23:37; 23:37; 23:37; 23:45

Hosea

3:1; 4:2; 4:2; 4:13; 4:13; 4:14; 4:14; 7:4

Malachi

3:5

H5003

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5003 matches the Hebrew נָאַף (nā'ap̄),
which occurs 31 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:14 - “You shall not commit adultery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:10 - “If a man commits adultery with the wife of[fn] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:18 - “‘And you shall not commit adultery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:15 - The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
and he veils his face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:18 - If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
and you keep company with adulterers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:32 - He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:20 - This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3 - But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 - “How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
and have sworn by those who are no gods.
When I fed them to the full,
they committed adultery
and trooped to the houses of whores.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2 - [fn] Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
a company of treacherous men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 - For the land is full of adulterers;
because of the curse the land mourns,
and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course is evil,
and their might is not right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 - But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:23 - because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the LORD.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:32 - Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up[fn] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:1 - And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13 - They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
and your brides commit adultery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14 - I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with cult prostitutes,
and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:4 - They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
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