7 occurrences in 11 translations

'Prostitute' in the Bible

Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; [but] they didn't do so.

Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofGod's WaysProstitutionRevelation, Responses ToDifferent Gods

Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.

Verse ConceptsephodsProstitutionTrapEvil Trapping

It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, Historygideon

Jephthah the Gileadite was a great warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenHarlots

Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went to bed with her.

Verse ConceptsBad Decision Making ExamplesSeductionHarlotsAttraction

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

Verse ConceptsStrength, SpiritualMidnightLocks And BarsCarrying Other Loads

His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessTwo To Four MonthsThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

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