Porneúō — G4203

Definition

verb

to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry

1. to prostitute one's body to the lust of another
2. to give oneself to unlawful sexual intercourse
3. by a Hebraism metaphorically, to be given to idolatry, to worship idols

Usually translated as

commit

Origin

from G4204

• pórnē (G4204)

Occurrences

Porneúō occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Corinthians (2), Revelation (5)

• 1 Corinthians 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication (πορνεύων) sinneth against his own body.
• 1 Corinthians 10:8 — Neither let us commit fornication (πορνεύωμεν), as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• 1 Corinthians 10:8 — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed (ἐπόρνευσαν), and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• Revelation 2:14 — But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication (πορνεῦσαι).
• Revelation 2:20 — Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication (πορνεῦσαι), and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
• Revelation 17:2 — With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication (ἐπόρνευσαν), and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
• Revelation 18:3 — For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication (ἐπόρνευσαν) with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
• Revelation 18:9 — And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication (πορνεύσαντες) and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,