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Lexicon :: Strong's G4205 - pornos

Strong's

Red Letter

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))

Greek Inflections of πόρνος [?]

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 Info

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).

Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

a man who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire
a male prostitute
a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)

Thayer's Greek Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)

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.)

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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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 5:9

1Co 5:9 - I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:^G4205

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1Co 5:10 - Yet not altogether with the fornicators^G4205 of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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1Co 5:11 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,^G4205 or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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1Co 6:9 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators,^G4205 nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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Eph 5:5 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger,^G4205 nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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1Ti 1:10 - For whoremongers,^G4205 for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

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Heb 12:16 - Lest there be any fornicator,^G4205 or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

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Heb 13:4 - Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers^G4205 and adulterers God will judge.

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Rev 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,^G4205 and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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Rev 22:15 - For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers,^G4205 and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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