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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

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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 Box Gen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry." And 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 - And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jez'ebel are so many?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you 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 journeyed to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - "For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve.' Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed 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 lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"

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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 renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself to any passer-by, and multiplying your harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - Men give gifts to all harlots; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - So you were different from other women in your harlotries: none solicited you to play the harlot; and you gave hire, while no hire was given to you; therefore you were different.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; I will make you stop playing the harlot, and you shall also give hire no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of every one on whom she doted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - She did not give up her harlotry which she had practiced since her days in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - "Her sister Ohol'ibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - But she carried her harlotry further; she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chalde'ans portrayed in vermilion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she increased her harlotry, 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 put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to the Egyptians or remember them any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your harlotry

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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, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and harlotry."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:7

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 in the midst of the people of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, and by the dead bodies of their kings,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - Now let them put away their idolatry and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD first spoke through Hose'a, the LORD said to Hose'a, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - "Plead with your mother, plead--for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband--that she 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 - Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11 - Wine and new wine take away the understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people inquire of a thing of wood, and their staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not 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; E'phraim's harlotry is there, Israel is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for from the hire of a harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of a harlot they shall return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - And all for the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.
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