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Lexicon :: Strong's G4202 - porneia

Aa
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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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 BoxGen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - And thou art different from other women in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers; and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy children, that thou didst give unto them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt also give no hire any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - And he said unto 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 children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:4 - Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 - In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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