Zimmah means “plan” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2154 — eusemos (“easy to be understood”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2154 זִמָּה זַמָּה (zimmah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zimmah (zim-maw') (or zammah {zam-maw'}) v. 1. a plan, especially a bad one [from H2161] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include lewd, heinous, and one. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
zimmah (zim-maw') (or zammah {zam-maw'}) v. 1. a plan, especially a bad one [from H2161] KJV: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness). Root(s): H2161
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wickedness
Usage: 1) plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose 1a) plan, purpose 1b) evil device, wickedness 1c) not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zimmah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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27 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2154.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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.
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.
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2154, grouped by book.
Zimmah (Strong's H2154) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "plan". zimmah (zim-maw') (or zammah {zam-maw'}) v. 1. a plan, especially a bad one [from H2161]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's H2154 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2154 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lewd, heinous, and one. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
