Leviticus 19:29
prostitute. Heb. profane. to cause.21:7; De 23:17; Ho 4:12-14; 1Co 6:15Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be, etc.The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations. 22:21,29; Le 19:29; Pr 2:16whore. or, sodomitess.Ro 1:26sodomite.Ge 19:4,5; Jud 19:22; 1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Ki 23:7; Ro 1:27,281Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:10Joshua 2:1
1 Rahab receives and conceals the two spies sent from Shittim.8 The covenant between her and them.23 Their return and relation. sent. or, had sent. Shittim.Nu 25:1; 33:49to spy secretly.Nu 13:2,17-21; Jud 18:2,14,17; Mt 10:16; Eph 5:5even Jericho.5:10; 6:1-24harlot's house.Though the word {zonah} generally denotes a prostitute, yet many very learned men are of opinion that it should be here rendered an innkeeper or hostess, from {zoon,} to furnish or provide food. In this sense it was understood by the Targumist, who renders it, {ittetha pundekeetha,} "a woman, a tavern-keeper," and so St. Chrysostome, in his second sermon on Repentance, calls her [pandokeutria.] The Greek [porné,] by which the LXX. render it, and which is adopted by the Apostles, is derived from [pernaó,] to sell, and is also supposed to denote a tavern keeper. Among the ancients, women generally kept houses of entertainment. Herodotus says, "Among the Egyptians, the women carry on all commercial concerns, and keep taverns, while the men continue at home and weave." The same custom prevailed among the Greeks. 6:17,25; Mt 1:5Rachab.21:31; Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25lodged. Heb. lay.
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