Greek verb · G4203
πορνεύω
porneuoporn-yoo'-o
to prostitute the body for hire.; to commit fornication
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: porneúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4203is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4203
to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry
The King James renders it: commit (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
porneuo is rendered "to prostitute the body for hire.; to commit fornication". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to prostitute the body for hire.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
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.
1 Corinthians 6:18πορνεύων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to prostitute the body for hire., and to commit fornication.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to prostitute the body for hire. | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body… |
| to commit fornicationMrk.10:19 (WH | Tagged as
| Where1 Chronicles 5:25They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their families… |
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 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- ἐπόρνευσαν3
- πορνεῦσαι2
- πορνεύσαντες1
- πορνεύωμεν1
- πορνεύων1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-PAS-1P
1 Corinthians
three uses
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.
- πορνεύωνporneuonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: sinning sexually
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- πορνεύωμενporneuomenverb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: shall we commit sexual immorality
- ἐπόρνευσανeporneusanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: committed sexual immorality
Revelation
five uses
But 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.
- πορνεῦσαιporneusaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to commit sexual immorality
But 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.
- πορνεῦσαιporneusaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to commit sexual 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.”
- ἐπόρνευσανeporneusanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: committed 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.”
- ἐπόρνευσανeporneusanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: committed sexual immorality
Then 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.
- πορνεύσαντεςporneusantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having committed 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.