GreekG4202Noun (Feminine)

πορνεία

porneia

25Occurrences
G4202Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry

from G4203 (πορνεύω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
fornication: ,; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6); disting. from μοιχεία,; = *μοιχεία *. Metaphorical (of idolatry: ): (Westc., in l), and so perh.
LXX: for תַּזְנוּת and cogn. forms

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

πορνεία appears 25 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Revelation
7
1 Corinthians
4
Acts
3
Matthew
3
1 Thessalonians
1
2 Corinthians
1
Colossians
1
Ephesians
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 5:1BSB

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

2 Corinthians 12:21BSB

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

Ephesians 5:3BSB

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Matthew 5:32BSB

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Revelation 18:3BSB

All the nations have drunk the wineof the passion of her immorality.The kings of the earth were immoral with her,and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthyfrom the extravagance of her luxury.”

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