πορνεία porneia
Greek word for “sexual sin” · Strong’s G4202 · used 25 times in 24 verses
Meaning
πορνεία, -ας, ἡ; (πορνεύω);
How it is translated
Glosses given for porneia in context, with how often each is used:
- sexual immorality 24
- immorality 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revelation | 7 | 0.7 | |
| 1 Corinthians | 5 | 0.7 | |
| Matthew | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Acts | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Mark | 1 | 0.1 | |
| John | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Corinthians | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Galatians | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Ephesians | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Colossians | 1 | 0.6 | |
| 1 Thessalonians | 1 | 0.7 |
Chapters where it is used most
Acts 15 (2), 1 Corinthians 6 (2), Revelation 17 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 15 (1), Matthew 19 (1), Mark 7 (1), John 8 (1), Acts 21 (1), 1 Corinthians 5 (1)
Forms
- πορνείας 12
- πορνείᾳ 4
- πορνείαν 3
- πορνεία 3
- πορνεῖαι 2
- Πορνεία 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with porneia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- ἀκαθαρσία akatharsia “impurity” 4
- πνικτός pniktos “strangled” 3
- πορνεύω porneuō “to sin sexually” 3
- φόνος phonos “murder” 3
- γυνή gunē “woman” 5
- ἀπέχω apechō “to have in full” 3
- αἷμα ahima “blood” 4
- οἶνος oinos “wine” 3
- κλοπή klopē “theft” 2
- μετανοέω metanoeō “to repent” 3
- ὅστις hostis, hētis “who/which” 4
- ἔθνος ethnos “Gentiles” 4
Key verses
The verses using porneia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Matthew 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:29 — That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do…
- 1 Corinthians 5:1 — It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his…
- 2 Corinthians 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness…
- Galatians 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
- Ephesians 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
- Colossians 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is…
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from 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 with her, and the merchants of…
- Revelation 19:2 — For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.