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Strong's G4204 πόρνη (porne)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4204 — mazor (“wound”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4204
Language Greek
Linked Usages 50
Books 21

Strong's G4204 Quick Answer

Strong's G4204 πόρνη (porne) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. porne (por'-nay) n. 1. a prostitute, a sex worker 2. (by extension) one who deliberately stimulates or fulfills unwedded sexual desire by dress, speech or conduct It has 50 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include one. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
porne (por'-nay) n. 1. a prostitute, a sex worker 2. (by extension) one who deliberately stimulates or fulfills unwedded sexual desire by dress, speech or conduct
Usage
50 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
one

Meaning and Definition

porne (por'-nay) n. 1. a prostitute, a sex worker 2. (by extension) one who deliberately stimulates or fulfills unwedded sexual desire by dress, speech or conduct 3. (figuratively) an idolater [feminine of G4205] KJV: harlot, whore Root(s): G4205

Original Word
πόρνη
Transliteration
porne
Derivation
Root: πόρνος R1: 4205
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4204. 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)

prostitute

Usage: πόρνη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for זָנָה ;] a prostitute, harlot: Mat.21:31-32, Luk.15:30, 1Co.6:15-16 Heb.11:31, Jas.2:25. Metaphorical (see Swete, Ap., 180 f.), of Babylon (i.e. Rome): Rev.17:1, 5 17:15-16 19:2.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4204 Is Translated

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

How Strong's G4204 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 35 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 G4204 (πόρνη) appears 40 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4204 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 G4204 in the New Testament

12 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 21:31 KJV

Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 21:32 KJV

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

Luke 15:30 KJV

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Strong's G4204 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

35 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 34:31 Septuagint / Brenton

And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as a harlot?

Genesis 38:15 Septuagint / Brenton

And when Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she covered her face, and he knew her not.

Genesis 38:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And he asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot who was in Enaim by the wayside? and they said, There was no harlot here.

Strong's G4204 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Sirach 9:6 Septuagint / Brenton

Give not thy soul unto harlots, That thou lose not thine inheritance.

Wisdom of Sirach 19:2 Septuagint / Brenton

Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: And he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

Usage Excerpts

First 50 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4204.

Genesis 34:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, Nay, but shall they treat our sister as a harlot?
Genesis 38:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she covered her face, and he knew her not.
Genesis 38:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot who was in Enaim by the wayside? and they said, There was no harlot here.
Genesis 38:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and the men of the place say, There is no harlot here.
Leviticus 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.
Leviticus 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.
Deuteronomy 23:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
One born of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 23:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Joshua 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two young men to spy the land, saying, Go up and view the land and Jericho: and the two young men went and entered into Jericho; and they entered into the house of a harlot, whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 6:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the city shall be devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do ye save Rahab the harlot, and all things in her house.
Joshua 6:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Rahab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel.
Joshua 6:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua saved alive Rahab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Judges 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man; and he was the son of a harlot, who bore Jephthah to Gilead.
Judges 16:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
3 Kingdoms 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him.
3 Kingdoms 20:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast slain and taken possession, therefore thus saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, there shall the dogs lick thy blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in thy blood.
3 Kingdoms 22:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they washed the chariot at the fountain of Samaria; and the swine and the dogs licked up the blood, and the harlots washed themselves in the blood, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.
Proverbs 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For honey drops from the lips of a harlot, Who for a season pleases thy palate:
Proverbs 6:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.
Proverbs 36:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How has the faithful city Zion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
Isaiah 23:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.
Isaiah 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Isaiah 57:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But draw ye near hither, ye lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.
Jeremiah 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In what way shall I forgive thee for these things? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots’ houses.
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 16:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thy high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.
Ezekiel 16:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
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?
Ezekiel 23:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah to work iniquity.
Hosea 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.
Joel 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.
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 21:31 New Testament, KJV
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Matthew 21:32 New Testament, KJV
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Luke 15:30 New Testament, KJV
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
1 Corinthians 6:15 New Testament, KJV
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 6:16 New Testament, KJV
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Hebrews 11:31 New Testament, KJV
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
James 2:25 New Testament, KJV
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Revelation 17:1 New Testament, KJV
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Revelation 17:5 New Testament, KJV
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 17:15 New Testament, KJV
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Revelation 17:16 New Testament, KJV
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
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.
Wisdom of Sirach 9:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Give not thy soul unto harlots, That thou lose not thine inheritance.
Wisdom of Sirach 19:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: And he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4204, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 5 usages, New Testament
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4204 FAQ

What does porne (πόρνη) mean?

Porne (Strong's G4204) is a Greek word most simply glossed "harlot". porne (por'-nay) n. 1. a prostitute, a sex worker 2. (by extension) one who deliberately stimulates or fulfills unwedded sexual desire by dress, speech or conduct

How many times is porne (πόρνη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 50 linked usages for Strong's G4204 across 21 books.

Where can I study porne (πόρνη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4204 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate porne (πόρνη)?

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

Does Strong's G4204 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 35 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4204, with linked reader references where each row is available.