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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

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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 - About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - You went to Molek[fn] with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors[fn] far away; you descended to the very realm of the dead!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - “ ‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[fn] portrayed in red,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11 - to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 - I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.
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