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Strong's #4204: porne (pronounced por'-nay)

feminine of 4205; a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater:--harlot, whore.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pornē

1) a woman who sells her body for sexual uses

1a) a prostitute, a harlot, one who yields herself to defilement for the sake of gain

1b) any woman indulging in unlawful sexual intercourse, whether for gain or for lust

2) metaphorically an idolatress

2a) of "Babylon," i.e. Rome, the chief seat of idolatry

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G4205

Citing in TDNT: 6:579, 918




Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Matthew 21:31: "publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before"
Matthew 21:32: "publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye,"
Luke 15:30: "which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted"
1 Corinthians 6:15: "of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid."
1 Corinthians 6:16: "ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for"
Hebrews 11:31: "By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received"
James 2:25: "was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received"
Revelation 17:1: "judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:"
Revelation 17:5: "GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
Revelation 17:15: "thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and"
Revelation 17:16: "these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate"
Revelation 19:2: "he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth"









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