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Lexicon :: Strong's G4202 - porneia

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πορνεία
Transliteration
porneia (Key)
Pronunciation
por-ni'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:579,918

Strong’s Definitions

πορνεία porneía, por-ni'-ah; from G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry:—fornication.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 26x

The KJV translates Strong's G4202 in the following manner: fornication (26x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 26x
The KJV translates Strong's G4202 in the following manner: fornication (26x).

  1. illicit sexual intercourse

    1. adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals etc.

    2. sexual intercourse with close relatives; Lev. 18

    3. sexual intercourse with a divorced man or woman; Mk. 10:11-12

  2. metaph. the worship of idols

    1. of the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πορνεία porneía, por-ni'-ah; from G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry:—fornication.
STRONGS G4202:
πορνεία, πορνείας, ἡ (πορνεύω), the Sept. for תַּזְנוּת, זְנוּת, זְנוּנִים, fornication (Vulg. fornicatio (and (Revelation 19:2) prostitutio)); used
a. properly, of illicit sexual intercourse in general (Demosthenes, 403, 27; 433, 25): Acts 15:20, 29; Acts 21:25 (that this meaning must be adopted in these passages will surprise no one who has learned from 1 Corinthians 6:12ff how leniently converts from among the heathen regarded this vice and how lightly they indulged in it; accordingly, all other interpretations of the term, such as of marriages within the prohibited degrees and the like, are to be rejected); Romans 1:29 Rec.; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 6:13, 18; 1 Corinthians 7:2; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Revelation 9:21; it is distinguished from μοιχεία in Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21; and Galatians 5:19 Rec.; used of adultery ((cf. Hosea 2:2 (4), etc.)), Matthew 5:32; Matthew 19:9.
b. In accordance with a form of speech common in the O. T. and among the Jews which represents the close relationship existing between Jehovah and his people under the figure of a marriage (cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 422{a} following), πορνεία is used metaphorically of the worship of idols: Revelation 14:8; Revelation 17:2, 4; Revelation 18:3; Revelation 19:2; ἡμεῖς ἐκ πορνείας οὐ γεγεννήμεθα (we are not of a people given to idolatry), ἕνα πατέρα ἔχομεν τόν Θεόν, John 8:41 (ἄθεος μέν ὁ ἄγονος, πολύθεος δέ ὁ ἐκ πόρνης, τυφλωττων περί τόν ἀληθῆ πατέρα καί διά τοῦτο πολλούς ἀνθ' ἑνός γονεῖς αἰνιττόμενος, Philo de mig. Abr. § 12; τέκνα πορνείας, of idolaters, Hosea 1:2; (but in John, the passage cited others understand physical descent to be spoken of (cf. Meyer))); of the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols, Revelation 2:21.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Hosea
1:2; 2:2
Matthew
5:32; 15:19; 19:9
Mark
7:21
John
8:41
Acts
15:20; 15:29; 21:25
Romans
1:29
1 Corinthians
5:1; 6:12; 6:13; 6:18; 7:2
2 Corinthians
12:21
Galatians
5:19
Ephesians
5:3
Colossians
3:5
1 Thessalonians
4:3
Revelation
2:21; 9:21; 14:8; 17:2; 17:4; 18:3; 19:2; 19:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4202 matches the Greek πορνεία (porneia),
which occurs 26 times in 25 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:32 - but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:19 - For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:9 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:21 - For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:41 - Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20 - but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29 - that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:29 - being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:1 - It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 - Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18 - Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:2 - But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:21 - lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:19 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3 - But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:3 - For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:21 - And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:21 - and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:8 - And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:4 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:3 - For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:2 - for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
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