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Strong's G1608 ἐκπορνεύω (ekporneuo)

ekporneuo - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1608 — gaash in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1608
Language Greek
Linked Usages 39
Books 12

Strong's G1608 Quick Answer

Strong's G1608 ἐκπορνεύω (ekporneuo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ekporneuo (ek-porn-yoo'-o) v. 1. to be utterly unchaste [from G1537 and G4203] It has 39 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include over. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
ekporneuo (ek-porn-yoo'-o) v. 1. to be utterly unchaste [from G1537 and G4203]
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
over

Meaning and Definition

ekporneuo (ek-porn-yoo'-o) v. 1. to be utterly unchaste [from G1537 and G4203] KJV: give self over to fornication Root(s): G1537, G4203

Original Word
ἐκπορνεύω
Transliteration
ekporneuo
Derivation
Root: πορνεύω R1: 1537 R2: 4203
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1608. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to fornicate

Usage: ἐκ-πορνεύω [in LXX chiefly for זָנָה, frequently of spiritual unfaithfulness ;] strengthened form of πoρνεύω, implying excessive indulgence; mid, to give oneself up to fornication: Ju 7.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1608 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ekporneuo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

over Jude 1:7

How Strong's G1608 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1608 (ἐκπορνεύω) appears 44 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1608 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1608 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Jude 1:7 KJV

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Strong's G1608 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 38:24 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by whoredom; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.

Exodus 34:15 Septuagint / Brenton

lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call thee, and thou shouldest eat of their feasts,

Exodus 34:16 Septuagint / Brenton

and thou shouldest take of their daughters to thy sons, and thou shouldest give of thy daughters to their sons; and thy daughters should go a-whoring after their gods, and thy sons should go a-whoring after their gods.

Strong's G1608 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Sirach 46:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And concerning the judges, every one by name, Whose heart went not a-whoring, Nor departed from the Lord, Let their memory be blessed.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1608.

Genesis 38:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has grievously played the harlot, and behold she is with child by whoredom; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.
Exodus 34:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call thee, and thou shouldest eat of their feasts,
Exodus 34:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shouldest take of their daughters to thy sons, and thou shouldest give of thy daughters to their sons; and thy daughters should go a-whoring after their gods, and thy sons should go a-whoring after their gods.
Leviticus 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to vain gods after which they go a-whoring; it shall be a perpetual statute to you for your generations.
Leviticus 19:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a-whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.
Leviticus 20:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then will I set my face against that man and his family, and I will destroy him, and all who have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a-whoring to the princes, from their people.
Leviticus 20:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters, so as to go a-whoring after them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people.
Leviticus 21:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a-whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burned with fire.
Numbers 15:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a-whoring;
Numbers 25:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel sojourned in Shittim, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.
Deuteronomy 22:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father’s house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so thou shalt remove the evil one from among you.
Deuteronomy 31:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will arise and go a-whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.
Judges 2:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for they went a-whoring after other gods, and worshiped them; and they turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked to hearken to the words of the Lord; they did not so.
Judges 8:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gideon made an ephod of it, and set it in his city in Ophrah; and all Israel went thither a-whoring after it, and it became a stumbling block to Gideon and his house.
Judges 8:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned, and went a-whoring after Baalim, and made for themselves a covenant with Baal that he should be their god.
2 Chronicles 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he built high places in the cities of Judah, and caused the dwellers in Jerusalem to go a-whoring, and led Judah astray.
2 Chronicles 21:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast caused Judah and the dwellers in Jerusalem to go a-whoring, as the house of Ahab caused Israel to go a-whoring, and thou hast slain thy brethren, the sons of thy father, who were better than thyself;
Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him anymore at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 6:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices); and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
Ezekiel 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them; therefore thou shalt never come in, nor shall the like take place.
Ezekiel 16:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them.
Ezekiel 16:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little,
Ezekiel 16:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring often to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst go a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even thus wast thou satisfied; yea, thou didst go a-whoring, and wast not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.
Ezekiel 16:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication.
Ezekiel 20:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations,
Ezekiel 23:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.
Ezekiel 23:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Oholah went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,
Ezekiel 23:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.
Ezekiel 23:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot?
Hosea 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.
Hosea 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and all my necessaries.
Hosea 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staffs: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.
Hosea 4:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
Hosea 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has chosen the Canaanites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.
Hosea 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.
Jude 1:7 New Testament, KJV
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Wisdom of Sirach 46:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And concerning the judges, every one by name, Whose heart went not a-whoring, Nor departed from the Lord, Let their memory be blessed.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1608, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1608 FAQ

What does ekporneuo (ἐκπορνεύω) mean?

Strong's G1608 is a Greek entry for G1608 ἐκπορνεύω (ekporneuo). ekporneuo (ek-porn-yoo'-o) v. 1. to be utterly unchaste [from G1537 and G4203]

How many times is ekporneuo (ἐκπορνεύω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's G1608 across 12 books.

Where can I study ekporneuo (ἐκπορνεύω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1608 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate ekporneuo (ἐκπορνεύω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as over. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1608 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 37 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1608, with linked reader references where each row is available.