πορνεύω (porneuō) means “to sin sexually” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: porn-yoo'-o Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.
πορνεύω · porneuō · to sin sexually
πορνεύω [in LXX for זָנָה ;] 1. to prostitute the body for hire. 2. to commit fornication: Mrk.10:19 (WH, mg), 1Co.6:18 10:8, Rev.2:14, 20. Metaphorical (as in LXX: 1Ch.5:25, Jer.3:6, Hos.9:1, al.), of idolatry (but see Swete, Ap., 180 f.), Rev.17:2 18:3, 9 (cf. ἐκ- πορνεύω).† (AS)
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I fornicate; met: I practice idolatry.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| were immoral | 2 |
| commit sexual immorality | 1 |
| committed sexual immorality | 1 |
| did | 1 |
| sins sexually | 1 |
| to be sexually immoral | 1 |
| we should not commit sexual immorality | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| have committed fornication | 3 |
| to commit fornication | 2 |
| committed | 1 |
| committeth fornication | 1 |
| let us commit fornication | 1 |
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Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Read word by wordWe should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Read word by wordBut I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
Read word by wordBut I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Read word by wordThe kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
Read word by wordAll the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
Read word by wordThen the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
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