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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 25 times in 24 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:32 - but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits 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, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:9 - I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:41 - You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20 - but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29 - that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - But concerning the Goyim who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:1 - It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Goyim, that one has his father's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 - "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, 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 sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:2 - But, because of sexual immoralities, 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 - that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness 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 obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3 - But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes holy ones;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Put to death therefore your members which are on the eretz: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved 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: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:21 - I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:21 - They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:8 - Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Bavel the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:2 - with whom the kings of the eretz committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the eretz were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:4 - The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:3 - For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the eretz committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the eretz grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:2 - for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the eretz with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
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