Definition
πορνεύω
[in LXX for זָנָה ;]
1. to prostitute the body for hire.
2. to commit fornication: Mark 10:19 (WH, mg), 1 Corinthians 6:18; 10:8, Revelation 2:14, 20. Metaphorical (as in LXX: 1 Chronicles 5:25, Jeremiah 3:6, Hosea 9:1, al.), of idolatry (but see Swete, Ap., 180 f.), Revelation 17:2; 18:3, 9 (cf. ἐκ- πορνεύω).
Hebrew words it translates
The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as πορνεύω:
- זָנָהza.nah“to fornicate”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
8 total
- 1 Corinthians 6:18πορνεύων · sins sexuallyFlee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8πορνεύωμεν · We should not commit sexual immorality; ἐπόρνευσαν · [did]We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- Revelation 2:14πορνεῦσαι · commit sexual immoralityBut I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
- Revelation 2:20πορνεῦσαι · to be sexually immoralBut I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
- Revelation 17:2ἐπόρνευσαν · were immoralThe kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
- Revelation 18:3ἐπόρνευσαν · were immoralAll the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
- Revelation 18:9πορνεύσαντες · committed sexual immoralityThen the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.