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Strong's #4203: porneuo (pronounced porn-yoo'-o)

from 4204; to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry:--commit (fornication).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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porneuō

1) to prostitute one' s body to the lust of another

2) to give one' s self to unlawful sexual intercourse

2a) to commit fornication

3) metaphorically to be given to idolatry, to worship idols

3a) to permit one' s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4204

Citing in TDNT: 6:579, 918




Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

1 Corinthians 6:18: "without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own"
1 Corinthians 10:8: "Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell"
1 Corinthians 10:8: "as some of them committed, and fell in one"
Revelation 2:14: "to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication."
Revelation 2:20: "to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols."
Revelation 17:2: "kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the"
Revelation 18:3: "kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the"
Revelation 18:9: "kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her,"









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