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Lexicon :: Strong's G4204 - pornē

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πόρνη
Transliteration
pornē (Key)
Pronunciation
por'-nay
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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

πόρνη pórnē, por'-nay; feminine of G4205; a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater:—harlot, whore.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G4204 in the following manner: harlot (8x), whore (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G4204 in the following manner: harlot (8x), whore (4x).

  1. a woman who sells her body for sexual uses

    1. a prostitute, a harlot, one who yields herself to defilement for the sake of gain

    2. any woman indulging in unlawful sexual intercourse, whether for gain or for lust

  2. metaph. an idolatress

    1. of "Babylon" i.e. Rome, the chief seat of idolatry

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πόρνη pórnē, por'-nay; feminine of G4205; a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater:—harlot, whore.
STRONGS G4204:
πόρνη, πόρνης, ἡ (from περάω, πέρνημι, to sell; Curtius, § 358), properly a woman who sells her body for sexual uses (cf. Xenophon, mem. 1, 6, 13), the Sept. for זונָה;
1. properly, a prostitute, a harlot, one who yields herself to defilement for the sake of gain (Aristophanes, Demosthenes, others); in the N. T. universally, any woman indulging in unlawful sexual intercourse, whether for gain or for lust: Matthew 21:31; Luke 15:30; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25.
2. Hebraistically (see πορνεία, b. and πορνεύω, 3), metaphorically, an idolatress; so of 'Babylon' i. e. Rome, the chief seat of idolatry: Revelation 17:1, 5, 15; Revelation 19:2.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
21:31
Luke
15:30
1 Corinthians
6:15
Hebrews
11:31
James
2:25
Revelation
17:1; 17:5; 17:15; 19:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4204 matches the Greek πόρνη (pornē),
which occurs 37 times in 35 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15 - When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - “ ‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:2 - No one born of a forbidden marriage[fn] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, not even in the tenth generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:17 - No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[fn] into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[fn] to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:16 - Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 - They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),[fn] and the dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the LORD had declared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3 - For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:26 - For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:3 - A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 - At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - “Take up a harp, walk through the city, you forgotten prostitute; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3 - “But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 - “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:30 - “ ‘I am filled with fury against you,[fn] declares the Sovereign LORD, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

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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 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:35 - “ ‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:43 - Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44 - And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14 - “I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:3 - They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.

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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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