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Strong's G4202 πορνεία (porneia)

Porneia means “fornication” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4202 — mazon (“meat”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4202
Language Greek
Linked Usages 68
Books 25

Strong's G4202 Quick Answer

Strong's G4202 πορνεία (porneia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. porneia (por-nei'-ah) n. 1. prostitution (including adultery, incest, and porn) 2. (by extension) unwedded stimulation or fulfillment of sexual desire It has 68 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include adultery. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
porneia (por-nei'-ah) n. 1. prostitution (including adultery, incest, and porn) 2. (by extension) unwedded stimulation or fulfillment of sexual desire
Usage
68 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
adultery

Meaning and Definition

porneia (por-nei'-ah) n. 1. prostitution (including adultery, incest, and porn) 2. (by extension) unwedded stimulation or fulfillment of sexual desire 3. (figuratively) idolatry [from G4203] KJV: fornication Root(s): G4203

Original Word
πορνεία
Transliteration
porneia
Derivation
Root: πορνεύω R1: 4203
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4202. 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)

sexual sin

Usage: πορνεία, -ας, ἡ (πορνεύω), [in LXX for תַּזְנוּת and cogn. forms ;] fornication: Act.15:20, 29 21:25, 1Co.5:1 6:13 6:18, 2Co.12:21, Gal.5:19, Eph.5:3, Col.3:5, 1Th.4:3 (Lft., Notes, 53), Rev.9:21; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), 1Co.7:2; disting. from μοιχεία, Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21; = μοιχεία (Amos 8:17 Sir.23:23, al.), Mat.5:32 19:9. Metaphorical (of idolatry: Deu.23:2, Hos.1:2): Jhn.8:41 (Westc., in l), and so perh. (Thayer-Grimm, see word; but see Swete, in 11.), Rev.2:21 14:18 17:2, 4 18:3 19:2.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4202 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render porneia, 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.

adultery Matthew 5:32

How Strong's G4202 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4202 (πορνεία) appears 49 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4202 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 G4202 in the New Testament

25 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:32 KJV

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Matthew 15:19 KJV

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Matthew 19:9 KJV

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Strong's G4202 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.

Numbers 14:33 Septuagint / Brenton

And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.

4 Kingdoms 9:22 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And Jehu said, How can it be peace? as yet there are the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel, and her abundant witchcrafts.

Strong's G4202 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 8:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

Wisdom of Solomon 14:12 Septuagint / Brenton

For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, And the invention of them the corruption of life.

Wisdom of Sirach 23:23 Septuagint / Brenton

For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; And secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; And thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, And brought children by another man.

Strong's G4202 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 10:9 Septuagint / Brenton

through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin.' And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in

Usage Excerpts

First 68 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4202.

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.
Numbers 14:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.
4 Kingdoms 9:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And Jehu said, How can it be peace? as yet there are the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel, and her abundant witchcrafts.
Isaiah 47:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for thy trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.
Isaiah 57:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to hell.
Jeremiah 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou hast said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
Jeremiah 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
Jeremiah 13:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?
Ezekiel 16:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passerby.
Ezekiel 16:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passerby, and didst multiply thy fornication.
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 16:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus perverseness happened in thee.
Ezekiel 16:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast poured forth thy money, therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood of thy children which thou hast given to them.
Ezekiel 16:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from harlotry, and I will no more give thee rewards.
Ezekiel 23:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.
Ezekiel 23:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.
Ezekiel 23:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And her sister Oholibah saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,
Ezekiel 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.
Ezekiel 23:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,
Ezekiel 23:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and shalt no more remember Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labors and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication
Ezekiel 23:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.
Ezekiel 43:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;
Ezekiel 43:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
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 2:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:
Hosea 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.
Hosea 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
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 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.
Hosea 6:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Judah are defiled;
Micah 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.
Nahum 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of the abundance of fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favored, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.
Matthew 5:32 New Testament, KJV
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 15:19 New Testament, KJV
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew 19:9 New Testament, KJV
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Mark 7:21 New Testament, KJV
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
John 8:41 New Testament, KJV
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Acts 15:20 New Testament, KJV
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 New Testament, KJV
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 well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25 New Testament, KJV
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Romans 1:29 New Testament, KJV
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1 Corinthians 5:1 New Testament, KJV
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 father's wife.
1 Corinthians 6:13 New Testament, KJV
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 New Testament, KJV
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:2 New Testament, KJV
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
2 Corinthians 12:21 New Testament, KJV
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 and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19 New Testament, KJV
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 5:3 New Testament, KJV
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Colossians 3:5 New Testament, KJV
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Thessalonians 4:3 New Testament, KJV
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Revelation 2:21 New Testament, KJV
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Revelation 9:21 New Testament, KJV
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Revelation 14:8 New Testament, KJV
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 17:2 New Testament, KJV
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 17:4 New Testament, KJV
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Revelation 18:3 New Testament, KJV
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 the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Revelation 19:2 New Testament, KJV
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 his servants at her hand.
Tobit 8:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, And the invention of them the corruption of life.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; And secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; And thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, And brought children by another man.
Wisdom of Sirach 26:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.
Wisdom of Sirach 41:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: And of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;
1 Enoch 10:9 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin.' And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4202, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 19 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 3 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 4 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 7 usages, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G4202 FAQ

What does porneia (πορνεία) mean?

Porneia (Strong's G4202) is a Greek word most simply glossed "fornication". porneia (por-nei'-ah) n. 1. prostitution (including adultery, incest, and porn) 2. (by extension) unwedded stimulation or fulfillment of sexual desire

How many times is porneia (πορνεία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 68 linked usages for Strong's G4202 across 25 books.

Where can I study porneia (πορνεία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4202 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate porneia (πορνεία)?

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

Does Strong's G4202 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 37 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4202, with linked reader references where each row is available.