Strong G4205πόρνος

sexual sinner

Transliteration
pornos
Pronunciation
por'-nos
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From πέρνημι pernēmi (to sell; akin to the base of G4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal) that is (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine): - fornicator whoremonger.

Detailed definition

πόρνος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Sir.23:16-18 *;]
1. a male prostitute (Xen., al.).

2. a fornicator: 1Co.5:9-11 6:9, Eph.5:5, 1Ti.1:10, Heb.12:15 13:4, Rev.21:8 22:15.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4205 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • fornicator5
  • whoremonger5

First verses

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:9
    I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
  2. 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.
  3. 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 drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
  4. 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 abusers of themselves with mankind,
  5. 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.
  6. 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 contrary to sound doctrine;
  7. Hebrews 12:16
    Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
  8. Hebrews 13:4
    Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
  9. 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 the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  10. 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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Detailed Greek dictionary
πόρνος, ὁ,
catamite, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 155, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.13, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.73, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 242, etc.)]
2 sodomite, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 4.11, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 4.)]
3 in LXX and NT, fornicator, [LXX+NT (LXX.Sir.23.16, NT.1Cor.5.9, +others)]
II idolater, [Refs (10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]