Greek noun (feminine) · G4202
πορνεία
porneiapor-ni'-ah
sexual sin
25 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: porneía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4202is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4202
harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry
The King James renders it: fornication.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
porneia is rendered "sexual sin". It stands 25 times in the Greek text, across eleven books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 5:32πορνείας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty-five uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sexual immorality20
- of sexual immorality2
- for sexual immorality1
- from sexual immorality1
- immorality1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πορνείας12
- πορνεία4
- πορνείᾳ4
- πορνεῖαι2
- πορνείαν2
- πορνείαν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular11N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular4N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular4N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural2N-NPF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
Matthew
three uses
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of sexual immorality
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- πορνεῖαιporneiainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: sexual immorality
Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”
- πορνείᾳporneianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Mark
one use
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- πορνεῖαιporneiainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: sexual immorality
John
one use
You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Acts
three uses
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: from sexual immorality
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
- πορνείαν.¶porneiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
1 Corinthians
five uses
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
- πορνείαporneianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
- πορνείαporneianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- πορνείᾳporneianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: for sexual immorality
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- πορνείανporneiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sexual immorality
2 Corinthians
one use
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
- πορνείᾳporneianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: of sexual immorality
Galatians
one use
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- πορνείαporneianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Ephesians
one use
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- Πορνείαporneianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Sexual immorality
Colossians
one use
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- πορνείανporneiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
1 Thessalonians
one use
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Revelation
seven uses
Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: immorality
The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
All 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.”
- πορνείαςporneiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”
- πορνείᾳporneianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: sexual immorality
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.