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Definition and Usage:
The term "whoredoms" in the Bible is often used to describe acts of sexual immorality, idolatry, and unfaithfulness to God. It is a term that encompasses both literal and metaphorical meanings, often used to illustrate the spiritual infidelity of the people of Israel when they turned away from God to worship other deities. The word is frequently found in the prophetic books of the Old Testament, where it serves as a powerful metaphor for the covenantal unfaithfulness of God's people.

Biblical References:

1. Literal Whoredoms:
· In the context of sexual immorality, "whoredoms" refers to acts of fornication and adultery. The Bible explicitly condemns such behavior as contrary to God's commandments. In Leviticus 19:29, the Israelites are warned, "Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness."

2. Metaphorical Whoredoms:
· The prophets frequently use the term to describe Israel's idolatry and spiritual adultery. In Hosea 4:12, the prophet declares, "My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have played the harlot against their God." Here, "whoredom" symbolizes the people's unfaithfulness to the covenant with Yahweh by turning to false gods.

3. Judgment and Consequences:
· The Bible warns of severe consequences for engaging in whoredoms, both in a literal and spiritual sense. In Ezekiel 16:35-36, God pronounces judgment on Jerusalem for her unfaithfulness: "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers... I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure."

4. Call to Repentance:
· Despite the harsh judgments, the Bible also extends a call to repentance and restoration. In Hosea 14:1-2, the prophet urges, "Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to Him: 'Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.'"

Theological Implications:
Whoredoms, as depicted in the Bible, serve as a stark reminder of the seriousness with which God views both physical and spiritual unfaithfulness. The repeated use of this term underscores the importance of fidelity to God's commandments and the exclusive worship of Yahweh. It highlights the covenant relationship between God and His people, where faithfulness is expected and idolatry is seen as a grave betrayal.

Moral and Ethical Considerations:
From a moral standpoint, the Bible's condemnation of whoredoms calls believers to uphold sexual purity and fidelity. It also serves as a warning against the dangers of idolatry and the temptation to prioritize worldly desires over spiritual devotion. The call to repentance and the promise of forgiveness emphasize God's mercy and the possibility of restoration for those who turn back to Him with sincere hearts.
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CHAP. I. -II. 3 (II. 1).
... Ver.2. At the beginning when the Lord spake to Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: Go
take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms; for the land is ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chap i -ii 3 ii 1.htm

How those are to be Admonished who have had Experience of the Sins ...
... to the memory of souls corrupted in this world, to the end that they may be ashamed
to be polluted in sins to come, saying, They committed whoredoms in Egypt ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter xxviii how those are.htm

Nahum's Doom of Nineveh
... Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favoured harlot, The mistress
of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, And families ...
/.../select masterpieces of biblical literature/xi nahums doom of nineveh.htm

CHAP. II. 4-25 (2-23).
... 4-25 (2-23). "The significant couple""Rueckert remarks""disappears in the thing
signified by it; Israel itself appears as the wife of whoredoms." This is ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chap ii 25-apr 2-23.htm

Everybody's Sermon
... The Lord said to him, "Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms; for the land hath
committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord," and he did so; and the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/everybodys sermon.htm

The Judgment of the Harlot.
... She is also described as "The well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts,
that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the judgment of the harlot.htm

Prefaces to the Commentaries on the Minor Prophets.
... The Preface to Book i. is chiefly taken up with a discussion on Hosea's "wife of
whoredoms." He takes the story as allegorical; it cannot be literal, for "God ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/prefaces to the commentaries on.htm

Letter Lxx. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.
... Hosea took a wife of whoredoms, Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and this
harlot bore him a son called Jezreel or the seed of God. ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter lxx to magnus an.htm

Letter Liii. To Paulinus.
... Hosea speaks many times of Ephraim, of Samaria, of Joseph, of Jezreel, of a wife
of whoredoms and of children of whoredoms, [1465] of an adulteress shut up ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter liii to paulinus.htm

The Sixth vision "On Earth"
... The Jewish whoredoms, and the Papal whoredoms, and the Mohammedan whoredoms, and
the whoredoms of all perverted Christian religionists, though not entirely ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the sixth vision on earth.htm

Thesaurus
Whoredoms (34 Occurrences)
...Whoredoms (34 Occurrences). ... Mark 7:21 for from within, out of the heart of men, the
evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, (YLT). ...
/w/whoredoms.htm - 17k

A-whoring (35 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 16:15 And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of
thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by -- to him it is. ...
/a/a-whoring.htm - 17k

Whoredom (58 Occurrences)
... 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the ...
/w/whoredom.htm - 24k

Discovered (46 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and
thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all ...
/d/discovered.htm - 21k

Bruised (36 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in
their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats ...
/b/bruised.htm - 18k

Well-favored (7 Occurrences)
... Nahum 3:4 because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and ...
/w/well-favored.htm - 8k

Wellfavoured (1 Occurrence)
... Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and ...
/w/wellfavoured.htm - 6k

Well-favoured (4 Occurrences)
... Nahum 3:4 because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and ...
/w/well-favoured.htm - 7k

Whoring (17 Occurrences)
... 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the ...
/w/whoring.htm - 12k

Inordinate (2 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her ...
/i/inordinate.htm - 8k

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Concordance
Whoredoms (34 Occurrences)

Matthew 15:19
for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
(YLT)

Mark 7:21
for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,
(YLT)

Revelation 9:21
yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.
(YLT)

Numbers 14:33
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

2 Kings 9:22
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
(KJV ASV YLT)

2 Chronicles 21:13
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
(KJV YLT)

Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
(KJV ASV)

Ezekiel 16:15
But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.
(ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:20
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:22
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:25
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
(KJV YLT)

Ezekiel 16:26
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
(KJV YLT)

Ezekiel 16:29
And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan -- toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 16:33
They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
(ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:34
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 16:36
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ezekiel 23:3
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
(KJV)

Ezekiel 23:7
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:8
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:11
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:14
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ezekiel 23:17
And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 23:18
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:27
And I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, And thy whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, And Egypt thou dost not remember again.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 23:29
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ezekiel 23:43
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
(KJV YLT)

Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
(KJV DBY YLT)

Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Hosea 2:4
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
(KJV DBY YLT)

Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
(KJV DBY YLT)

Hosea 5:4
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
(KJV DBY YLT)

Nahum 3:4
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
(KJV ASV)

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