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πορνεία
porneía · Greek · Strong's G4202 · 25 occurrences
The KJV renders 2 different Hebrew and Greek words as “fornication”
What it means
harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry
from G4203 (πορνεύω);
How the KJV renders it
fornication
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“fornication”
also renders taznûwth (H8457)
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Where it appears
25 occurrences in the Greek text, first 24 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 5:1 · N-NSF
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 6:13 · N-DSF
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 · N-ASF
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:2 · N-APF
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 · N-GSF
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
2 Corinthians 12:21 · N-DSF
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
Acts 15:20 N-GSFActs 15:29 N-GSFActs 21:25 N-ASFColossians 3:5 N-ASFEphesians 5:3 N-NSFGalatians 5:19 N-NSFJohn 8:41 N-GSFMatthew 5:32 N-GSFMatthew 15:19 N-NPFMatthew 19:9 N-DSFMark 7:21 N-NPFRevelation 2:21 N-GSFRevelation 9:21 N-GSFRevelation 14:8 N-GSFRevelation 17:2 N-GSFRevelation 17:4 N-GSFRevelation 18:3 N-GSFRevelation 19:2 N-DSF
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