Lexicon :: Strong's G4204 - pornē

But they answered, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute? ”

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim? ”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

“They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution.[fn] They are not to marry one divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

“He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

“No one of illegitimate birth may enter the LORD’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the LORD’s assembly.

“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove,[fn] saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there.

“But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.

So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the messengers Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she still lives in Israel today.

Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went to bed with her.

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

“Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Have you murdered and also taken possession? ’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood! ’ ”

Then someone washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes bathed in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey

and her words are[fn] smoother than oil,

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[fn]

but the wife of another man[fn] goes after a precious life.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,

but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years ​— ​the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

But come here,

you witch’s sons,

offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute![fn]

This is why the showers haven’t come —

why there has been no spring rain.

You have the brazen look of a prostitute[fn]

and refuse to be ashamed.

Why should I forgive you?

Your children have abandoned me

and sworn by those who are not gods.

I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;

they gashed themselves at the[fn] prostitute’s house.

“ ‘How your heart was inflamed with lust[fn] ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

“ ‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

“Then I said concerning this woman worn out by adultery: Will they[fn] now have illicit sex with her, even her?

I will not punish your daughters

when they act promiscuously

or your daughters-in-law

when they commit adultery,

for the men themselves go off with prostitutes

and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.

People without discernment are doomed.

They cast lots for my people;

they bartered a boy for a prostitute

and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute,

the attractive mistress of sorcery,

who treats nations and clans like merchandise

by her prostitution and sorcery,