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Lexicon :: Strong's G4203 - porneuō

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πορνεύω
Transliteration
porneuō (Key)
Pronunciation
porn-yoo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:579,918

Strong’s Definitions

πορνεύω porneúō, porn-yoo'-o; from G4204; to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry:—commit (fornication).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G4203 in the following manner: commit fornication (7x), commit (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G4203 in the following manner: commit fornication (7x), commit (1x).

  1. to prostitute one's body to the lust of another

  2. to give one's self to unlawful sexual intercourse

    1. to commit fornication

  3. metaph. to be given to idolatry, to worship idols

    1. to permit one's self to be drawn away by another into idolatry

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πορνεύω porneúō, porn-yoo'-o; from G4204; to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry:—commit (fornication).
STRONGS G4203:
πορνεύω; 1 aorist ἐπόρνευσα; (πόρνος, πόρνη which see); the Sept. for זָנָה; in Greek writings ((Herodotus), Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dio Cassius, Lucian, others)
1. to prostitute one's body to the lust of another. In the Scriptures
2. to give oneself to unlawful sexual intercourse; to commit fornication (Vulg.fornicor): 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Revelation 2:14, 20; (Mark 10:19 WH (rejected) marginal reading).
3. by a Hebraism (see πορνεία, b.) metaphorically, to be given to idolatry, to worship idols: 1 Chronicles 5:25; Psalm 72:27 (Ps. 73:27); Jeremiah 3:6; Ezekiel 23:19; Hosea 9:1, etc.; μετά τίνος, to permit oneself to be drawn away by another into idolatry, Revelation 17:2; Revelation 18.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Chronicles
5:25
Psalms
73:27
Jeremiah
3:6
Ezekiel
23:19
Hosea
9:1
Mark
10:19
1 Corinthians
6:18; 10:8
Revelation
2:14; 2:20; 17:2; 18

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Strong's Number G4203 matches the Greek πορνεύω (porneuō),
which occurs 8 times in 7 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18 - Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the [fn]sexually G4203 immoral G4203 person G4203 sins against his own body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:8 - Nor are we to commit G4203 sexual G4203 immorality G4203, as some of them [fn]did G4203, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:14 - ‘But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a [fn]stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit G4203 sexual G4203 immorality G4203.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:20 - ‘But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit G4203 sexual G4203 immorality G4203 and eat things sacrificed to idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth committed G4203 acts of sexual G4203 immorality G4203, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:3 - “For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed G4203 acts of sexual G4203 immorality G4203 with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the [fn]excessive wealth of her [fn]luxury.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:9 -

“And the kings of the earth, who committed G4203 acts of sexual G4203 immorality G4203 and lived luxuriously with her, will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning,

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