זֹנוֹת zônôwth — harlots
Translated in the KJV as armour.
regarded by some as if from H2109 or an unused root, and applied to military equipments; but evidently the feminine plural active participle of H2181; harlots.
zônôwth in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 2
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the Lord which he spake.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›