Loose Conduct - Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament Words
Usage Number: 1
Strong's Number: H2154
Original Word: zimmâ
Usage Notes: "loose conduct; lewdness." The 28 occurrences of this noun are all in legal and poetical books of the Bible, except for a single occurrence in Judges.
This noun signifies "loose or infamous conduct" and is used most often with regard to illicit sexual conduct: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter,… or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness" (Lev. 18:17, the first occurrence). Rejection of God's law or spiritual adultery may be represented by zimmâ (Psa. 119:150; cf. Ezek. 16:12-28). A plan or scheme identified by the word is, therefore, a "harlotrous" plan (Psa. 26:10).
Usage Number: 2
Strong's Number: H4209
Original Word: mezimmâ
Usage Notes: "purpose; evil device; evil thoughts; discretion." This noun occurs 19 times. The word means "purpose" in Job 42:2: "I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of time can be thwarted" (rsv). Mezimmâ refers to "evil device" in Jer. 11:15: "What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many…" In Job 21:27 the word is used to mean "evil thoughts," and in Prov. 1:4 the word is used for "discretion."
Usage Number: 3
Part Of Speech: Verb
Strong's Number: H2161
Original Word: zamam
Usage Notes: "to ponder, to cogitate." The noun mezimmâ is derived from this verb that occurs 13 times. In Zech. 8:14-15 the word appears to carry the sense of "to ponder": "For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath… and I repented not: So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not."