Word

πορνεύω

porneúō · G4203 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

to engage in illicit sex, to commit fornication, sexual immorality, fornication, prostitution

To engage in sexual immorality of any kind, often with the implication of prostitution

Examples
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 10:8 Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Revelation 2:14 ‘But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

8 occurrences in 6 groups

βασιλεύςking 2
Not stated (infinitive) 2
Not stated (participle) 2
δοῦλοςslave, bondservant 1
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Not stated: we 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

μετάwith, after+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
μετάwith, after+ ὅςwho, which, that 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

βασιλεύςking 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἁμαρτάνωto sin, to do wrong 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

διδάσκωto teach, teaching 1
πλανάωto deceive, to lead astray 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

זָנָה zânâh · H2181 · to commit fornication, to play the harlot, to cause to commit fornication: Greek πορνεύω is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew זָנָה, both denoting sexual immorality (literal harlotry/fornication) and extended figuratively to covenant unfaithfulness/idolatry; the terms are direct translation equivalents across the literal and metaphorical senses.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To engage in illicit sex, to commit fornication, sexual immorality, fornication, prostitution88.271: The verb describes committing sexual immorality, and figuratively, spiritual unfaithfulness through idolatry. Paul's warning to the Corinthians uses this term: “Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day” (1 Corinthians 10:8).

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πόρνος pórnos · G4205 · a sexually immoral person · 10×πορνεία porneía · G4202 · to engage in illicit sex, to commit fornication, sexual immorality · 25×πόρνη pórnē · G4204 · prostitute · 12×πορνεύωporneúō · G4203ἐκπορνεύω ekporneúō · G1608 · to engage in illicit sex, to commit fornication, sexual immorality · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἐπόρνευσα; (πόρνος, πόρνη which see); the Sept. for זָנָה; in Greek writings…

1 aorist ἐπόρνευσα; (πόρνος, πόρνη which see); the Sept. for זָנָה; 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): 1 Cor 6:18; 1 Cor 10:8; Rev 2:14, Rev 2:20; (Mk 10:19 WH (rejected) marginal reading).
3. by a Hebraism (see πορνεία, b.) metaphorically, to be given to idolatry, to worship idols: 1 Chr 5:25; Psalm 72:27; Jer 3:6; Ezek 23:19; Hos 9:1, etc.; μετά τίνος, to permit oneself to be drawn away by another into idolatry, Rev 17:2; Revelation 18.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sexual Misbehavior8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0