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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 46 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, “[fn]Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - ‘Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will [fn]suffer for your [fn]unfaithfulness, until your corpses [fn]lie in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When [fn]Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he [fn]answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:10

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 deluded you;
For you have said in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - “You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to [fn]Sheol.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “For long ago [fn]I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
By the roads you have sat for them
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you have polluted a land
With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - “As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your prostitution
On the hills in the field,
I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - “But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by [fn]who might be willing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - “Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - “You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - “When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - “[fn]Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - “Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot [fn]as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to [fn]idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - “I will also give you into [fn]the hands of 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - “They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay [fn]your lovers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - “She bestowed her harlotries 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - “She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth [fn]men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their [fn]lust on her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - “So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - “The [fn]Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, [fn]she became disgusted with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - “She uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then [fn]I became disgusted with her, as [fn]I had become disgusted with her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - “Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - ‘Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:29

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 harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - “Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - 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 harlotry and by the [fn]corpses of their kings [fn]when they die,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - “Now let them put away their harlotry and the [fn]corpses of their kings far from Me; and I will dwell among them forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, [fn]forsaking the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “Contend with your mother, contend,
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away her harlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - “Also, I will have no compassion on her children,
Because they are children of harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11 - Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the [fn]understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing [fn]from their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 - In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All of her idols will be smashed,
All of her earnings will be burned with fire
And all of her images I will make desolate,
For she collected them from a harlot’s earnings,
And to the earnings of a harlot they will return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - All because of the many harlotries of the harlot,
The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations by her harlotries
And families by her sorceries.
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