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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 25 times in 24 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:32 - but I say to you that everyone who [fn]divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, G4202 makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a [fn]divorced woman commits adultery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:19 - “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, [fn]fornications, G4202 thefts, false witness, slanders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:9 - “And I say to you, whoever [fn]divorces his wife, except for [fn]immorality, G4202 and marries another woman [fn]commits adultery[fn].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:21 - “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, [fn]fornications, G4202 thefts, murders, adulteries,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:41 - “You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; G4202 we have one Father: God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20 - but that we write to them that they abstain from [fn]things contaminated by idols and from fornication G4202 and from what is strangled and from blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29 - that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; G4202 [fn]if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - “But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from [fn]meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.” G4202

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:1 - It is actually reported that there is immorality G4202 among you, and immorality G4202 of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 - Food is for the [fn]stomach and the [fn]stomach is for food, but God will do away with both [fn]of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, G4202 but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18 - Flee immorality. G4202 Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the [fn]immoral man sins against his own body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:2 - But because of immoralities, G4202 each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:21 - I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, [fn]immorality G4202 and sensuality which they have practiced.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:19 - Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: [fn]immorality, G4202 impurity, sensuality,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3 - But immorality G4202 [fn]or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among [fn]saints;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Therefore [fn]consider the members of your earthly body as dead to [fn]immorality, G4202 impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which [fn]amounts to idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:3 - For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from [fn]sexual G4202 immorality; G4202

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:21 - ‘I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. G4202

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:21 - and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality G4202 nor of their thefts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:8 - And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “[fn]Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the [fn]passion of her immorality.” G4202

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.” G4202

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:4 - The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and [fn]adorned with gold and precious [fn]stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, G4202

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:3 - “For all the nations [fn]have drunk of the wine of the [fn]passion of her immorality, G4202 and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the [fn]wealth of her [fn]sensuality.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:2 - BECAUSE HIS JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, G4202 and HE HAS AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS BOND-SERVANTS [fn]ON HER.”
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