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Lexicon :: Strong's G4205 - pornos

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πόρνος
Transliteration
pornos (Key)
Pronunciation
por'-nos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From pernemi (to sell, akin to the base of πιπράσκω (G4097))
mGNT
10x in 4 unique form(s) TR
10x in 4 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:579,918

Strong’s Definitions

πόρνος pórnos, por'-nos; from πέρνημι pérnēmi (to sell; akin to the base of G4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine):—fornicator, whoremonger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G4205 in the following manner: fornicator (5x), whoremonger (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G4205 in the following manner: fornicator (5x), whoremonger (5x).

  1. a man who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire

  2. a male prostitute

  3. a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πόρνος pórnos, por'-nos; from πέρνημι pérnēmi (to sell; akin to the base of G4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine):—fornicator, whoremonger.
STRONGS G4205:
πόρνος, πορνου, ὁ (for the etym. see πόρνη), a man who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire, a male prostitute, ((Aristophanes), Xenophon, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Lucian); universally, a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator (Vulg.fornicator,fornicarius (Revelation 22:15impudicus)): 1 Corinthians 5:9-11; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Ephesians 5:5; 1 Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 12:16; Hebrews 13:4; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15. (Sir. 23:16f.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Corinthians
5:9; 5:10; 5:11; 6:9
Ephesians
5:5
1 Timothy
1:10
Hebrews
12:16; 13:4
Revelation
21:8; 22:15; 22:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4205 matches the Greek πόρνος (pornos),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:9 - I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:10 - Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:11 - But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:9 - Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[fn] nor sodomites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:5 - For this you know,[fn] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 1:10 - for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:16 - lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:4 - Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:8 - “But the cowardly, unbelieving,[fn] abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:15 - But[fn] outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
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