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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)
Dictionary Aids

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, (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 ἄγονος, πολύθεος δέ 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 46 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 -

Now it was about three months later that Judah was [fn]informed, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and behold, she is also pregnant by prostitution.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned!”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - ‘Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will [fn]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When [fn]Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he [fn]answered, “What ‘peace,’ so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 -

“You felt secure in your wickedness and said,

‘No one sees me,’

Your wisdom and your knowledge, [fn]they have led you astray;

For you have said in your heart,

‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 -

“You have journeyed to the king with oil

And increased your perfumes;

You have sent your messengers a great distance

And made them go down to [fn]Sheol.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 -

“For long ago [fn]I broke your yoke

And tore off your restraints;

But you said, ‘I will not serve!’

For on every high hill

And under every leafy tree

You have lain down as a prostitute.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 -

“Raise your eyes to the bare heights and see;

Where have you not been violated?

You have sat for them by the roads

Like an Arab in the desert,

And you have defiled a land

With your prostitution and your wickedness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed [fn]adultery with stones and trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 -

“As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings,

The outrageous sin of your prostitution

On the hills in the field,

I have seen your abominations.

Woe to you, Jerusalem!

How long will you remain unclean?”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 -

“But you trusted in your beauty and became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your [fn]obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - “And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - “You built yourself a high place at the beginning of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene practice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - “When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - “So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute’s fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the Lord GOD says: “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene practices with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to [fn]idols,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - “I will also hand you over to [fn]your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your [fn]jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - “And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. Then I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will also no longer pay [fn]your lovers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - “She bestowed her [fn]obscene practices on them, all of whom were the choicest [fn]men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - “She did not abandon her obscene practices from the time in Egypt; for in her youth [fn]men had slept with her, and they handled her virgin breasts and poured out their obscene practice on her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 -

“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were [fn]more than the prostitution of her sister.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - “So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans drawn in bright red,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - “And the [fn]Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their obscene practice. And when she had been defiled by them, [fn]she turned away from them in disgust.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - “She exposed her obscene practices and exposed her nakedness; then [fn]I turned away from her in disgust, just as [fn]I had turned away from her sister in disgust.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - “Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - ‘So I will remove from you your outrageous sin and your prostitution that you brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not raise your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - ‘They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, both your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - “Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and discarded Me behind your back, suffer on your own part the punishment for your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the [fn]corpses of their kings [fn]when they die,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - “Now let them remove their prostitution and the [fn]corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell among them forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 -

When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife [fn]inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for the land commits flagrant infidelity, [fn]abandoning the LORD.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 -

“Dispute with your mother, dispute,

Because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;

But she must remove her infidelity from her face

And her adultery from between her breasts,

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 -

“Also, I will take no pity on her children,

Because they are children of infidelity.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11 -

[fn]Infidelity, wine, and new wine take away the [fn]understanding.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 -

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;

For a spirit of infidelity has led them astray,

And they have been unfaithful, departing [fn]from their God.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 -

Their deeds will not allow them

To return to their God.

For a spirit of [fn]infidelity is within them,

And they do not know the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 -

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;

Ephraim’s infidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 -

All of her idols will be crushed,

All of her earnings will be burned with fire,

And all of her images I will make desolate;

For she collected them from a prostitute’s earnings,

And to the earnings of a prostitute they will return.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 -

All because of the many sexual acts of the prostitute,

The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,

Who sells nations by her sexual acts,

And families by her sorceries.

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