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πορνεία G4202

G4202 is the Greek word πορνεία, transliterated porneía. The King James Version most often renders it fornication.

Word: πορνείαTransliteration: porneíaLanguage: GreekIn the KJV: 21 verses

What it means

harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry.

Where it comes from

from G4203 (πορνεύω).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 22 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

fornication 19×fornications 2×avoid fornication 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: fornication.

Verses using πορνεία

All 21 verses, quoted in full.

Matthew 5:32 · KJV

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Matthew 15:19 · KJV

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Matthew 19:9 · KJV

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Mark 7:21 · KJV

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

John 8:41 · KJV

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Acts 15:20 · KJV

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29 · KJV

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Romans 1:29 · KJV

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

1 Corinthians 5:1 · KJV

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 6:13 · KJV

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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.

1 Corinthians 7:2 · KJV

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21 · KJV

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19 · KJV

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 5:3 · KJV

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Colossians 3:5 · KJV

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:3 · KJV

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Revelation 2:21 · KJV

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Revelation 9:21 · KJV

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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 of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Revelation 19:2 · KJV

For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Common questions

What does Strong's G4202 mean?

G4202 is the Greek word πορνεία (porneía), meaning harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry.

How is G4202 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it fornication (19 times), fornications (2 times), avoid fornication (1 time).

How many times does G4202 appear in the Bible?

πορνεία (porneía) is tagged in 21 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does G4202 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from G4203 (πορνεύω).

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