Strong's Lexicon
G4203 — πορνεύω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4203 |
|---|---|
| Word: | πορνεύω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G4204 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 8 |
| Transliteration: | porneuo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | porn-yoo'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to act the prostitute 2. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex) 3. to stimulate unwedded sexual desire 4. (figuratively) practice idolatry |
| KJV Renderings: | commit (fornication) |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πορνεύω; 1 aorist ἐπόρνευσα; (πόρνος, πόρνη which see); the Sept. for æÈðÈä; in Greek writings ((Herodotus), Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dio Cassius, Lucian, others)
1. to prostitute one’s body to the lust of another. In the Scriptures
2. to give oneself to unlawful sexual intercourse; to commit fornication (Vulg.fornicor): 1Co 6:18; 1Co 10:8; Rev 2:14; Rev 2:20; (Mar 10:19 WH (rejected) marginal reading).
3. by a Hebraism (see πορνεία, b.) metaphorically, to be given to idolatry, to worship idols: 1Ch 5:25; Psalm 72:27 (); Jer 3:6; Eze 23:19; Hos 9:1, etc.; μετά τίνος, to permit oneself to be drawn away by another into idolatry, Rev 17:2; Rev 18:1-24.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
πορνεύω (commit (fornication))
1 Corinthians 6:18
- KJV: Flee fornication Every sin that a man doeth is without the body but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body
- GK: φεύγετε την πορνείαν παν αμάρτημα ο εάν ποιήση άνθρωπος εκτός του σώματός εστιν ο δε πορνεύων εις το ίδιον σώμα αμαρτάνει
1 Corinthians 10:8
- KJV: Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand
- GK: μηδέ πορνεύωμεν καθώς τινες αυτών επόρνευσαν και έπεσον εν μιά ημέρα εικοσιτρείς χιλιάδες
Revelation 2:14
- KJV: But I have a few things against thee because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication
- GK: αλλ΄ έχω κατά σου ολίγα ότι έχεις εκεί κρατούντας την διδαχήν Βαλαάμ ος εδίδασκε τον Βαλάκ βαλείν σκάνδαλον ενώπιον των υιών Ισραήλ φαγείν ειδωλόθυτα και πορνεύσαι
Revelation 2:20
- KJV: Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols
- GK: αλλ΄ έχω κατά σου ότι αφείς την γυναίκά σου την Ιεζάβηλ η λεγει εαυτήν προφήτιν και διδάσκει και πλανα τους εμούς δούλους πορνεύσαι και φαγείν ειδωλόθυτα
Revelation 17:2
- KJV: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication
- GK: μεθ΄ ης επόρνευσαν οι βασιλείς της γης και εμεθύσθησαν οι κατοικούντες την γην εκ του οίνου της πορνείας αυτής
Revelation 18:3
- KJV: For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies
- GK: ότι εκ του θυμού του οίνου της πορνείας αυτής πεπότικε πάντα τα έθνη και οι βασιλείς της γης μετ΄ αυτης επόρνευσαν και οι έμποροι της γης εκ της δυνάμεως του στρήνους αυτής επλούτησαν
Revelation 18:9
- KJV: And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning
- GK: και κλαύσουσι αυτήν και κόψονται επ΄ αυτή οι βασιλείς της γης οι μετ΄ αυτής πορνεύσαντες και στρηνιάσαντες όταν βλέπωσι τον καπνόν της πυρώσεως αυτής