πόρνος pornos

Greek word for “sexual sinner” · Strong’s G4205 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

πόρνος, -ου, ὁ; 1. a male prostitute (Xen., al.).; 2. a fornicator: 6:9, 13:4, 22:15.†;

How it is translated

Glosses given for pornos in context, with how often each is used:

• sexually immoral 8
• fornicator 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 5 (3), 1 Corinthians 6 (1), Ephesians 5 (1), 1 Timothy 1 (1), Hebrews 12 (1), Hebrews 13 (1), Revelation 21 (1), Revelation 22 (1)

Forms

• πόρνοις 4
• πόρνος 3
• πόρνοι 2
• πόρνους 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pornos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• εἰδωλολάτρης eidōlolatrēs “idolater” 6
• πλεονέκτης pleonektēs “greedy” 3
• ἤ ē “or” 5
• ἀρσενοκοίτης arsenokoitēs “sodomite” 2
• συναναμίγνυμι sunanamignumi “to associate with” 2
• μοιχός moichos “adulterer” 2
• φάρμακος pharmakos “sorcerer” 2
• ἅρπαξ harpax “rapacious” 2
• φονεύς phoneus “murderer” 2
• βασιλεία basileia “kingdom” 2
• γράφω graphō “to write” 2
• οἶδα oida “to know” 2

Key verses

The verses using pornos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Corinthians 5:9 — I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
• 1 Corinthians 5:10 — Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
• 1 Corinthians 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a…
• 1 Corinthians 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor…
• Ephesians 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• 1 Timothy 1:10 — For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is…
• Hebrews 12:16 — Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• Revelation 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in…
• Revelation 22:15 — For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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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.