et.nan denotes payment or gain portrayed in contexts of prostitution, harlotry, and their consequences.

The attested usage chiefly concerns payment or gain within prostitution and harlotry imagery: it may be given rather than received, loved at threshing floors, returned to, or destroyed with idols. The supplied verses do not isolate its contribution in Deuteronomy 23:19 closely enough to establish a separate use there.

1. Payment or gain in prostitution imagery · dominant

   In Ezekiel 16:31, Ezekiel 16:34, and Ezekiel 16:41, the absolute singular form occurs in clauses contrasting payment given with payment received and saying that such giving will cease. In Isaiah 23:17, Isaiah 23:18, Hosea 9:1, and Micah 1:7, construct forms occur where the APB renders a return to “wages,” love of “wages” at threshing floors, and items gathered from and returning to a prostitute’s wages.

   Ezekiel 16:31Ezekiel 16:34Ezekiel 16:41Hosea 9:1Isaiah 23:17Isaiah 23:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the surrounding clauses with “payment” in Ezekiel and “wages” in Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah; Micah 1:7 explicitly says “wages of a prostitute.” These renderings confirm the clauses’ overall portrayal rather than fixing a distinct English equivalent in every occurrence.