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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.
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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 46 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judas, saying, Thamar thy daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by whoredom; and Judas said, Bring her out, and let her be burnt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And it came to pass when Joram saw Ju, that he said, Is it peace, Ju? And Ju said, How can it be peace? as yet there are the whoredoms of thy mother Jezabel, and her abundant witchcrafts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - for thy [fn]trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to hell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou hast said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passer by, and didst multiply thy fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thine high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus perverseness happened in thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast poured forth thy money, therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood of thy children which thou hast given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thine high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from harlotry, and I will no more give thee rewards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - And her sister Ooliba saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and shalt no more remember Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - The beginning of the word of the Lord by Osee. And the Lord said to Osee, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - (LXX 2:4) Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - (LXX 2:6) And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11 - The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 - I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - 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.
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