Nahum 3:4
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Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts.

the mistress.

Isaiah 23:15-17 And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot. . . .

Isaiah 47:9,12,13 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters. . . .

Revelation 17:1-5 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . .

Revelation 18:2,3,9,23 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: . . .

Context
Judgment Against Nineveh
3And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a multitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of carcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies. 4Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts.5Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and thy shame to kingdoms.…
Cross References
Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters:

Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom.

Revelation 18:3
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:23
And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.

Isaiah 23:17
And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

Isaiah 47:9
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.

Isaiah 47:12
Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.

Ezekiel 16:25
At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.

Lexicon
because of the many
מֵרֹב֙ (mê·rōḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness

harlotries
זְנוּנֵ֣י (zə·nū·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

of the harlot,
זוֹנָ֔ה (zō·w·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

the seductive
חֵ֖ן (ḥên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2580: Graciousness, subjective, objective

mistress
בַּעֲלַ֣ת (ba·‘ă·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1172: A mistress

of sorcery,
כְּשָׁפִ֑ים (kə·šā·p̄îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3785: Sorcery

who betrays
הַמֹּכֶ֤רֶת (ham·mō·ḵe·reṯ)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4376: To sell

nations
גּוֹיִם֙ (gō·w·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

by her prostitution
בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ (biz·nū·ne·hā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2183: Adultery, idolatry

and clans
וּמִשְׁפָּח֖וֹת (ū·miš·pā·ḥō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

by her witchcraft.
בִּכְשָׁפֶֽיהָ׃ (biḵ·šā·p̄e·hā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3785: Sorcery


Additional Translations
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.Because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the well favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her prostitutions, and families through her witchcrafts.

because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

because of the abundance of fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.

-- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,

because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

Because of the multitude of the lewd deeds of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her lewd deeds, and families through her witchcrafts.

because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

Because of the abundance of the fornications of an harlot, The goodness of the grace of the lady of witchcrafts, Who is selling nations by her fornications, And families by her witchcrafts.
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