2 Chronicles 21:11
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
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Fornication
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Revelation 19:2
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.
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12 occurrences in 10 verses.
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πορνεία
porneía · por-ni'-ah
24 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences
harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry
Strong's KJV usage: :--fornication.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:32Strong's last: Revelation 19:2
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porneúō · porn-yoo'-o
7 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry
Strong's KJV usage: :--commit (fornication).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 6:18Strong's last: Revelation 18:9
Open full G4203 profile →זָנָה
zânâh · zaw-naw'
3 times translated as this KJV form92 total Strong's occurrences
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 21:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:26
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ekporneúō · ek-porn-yoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to be utterly unchaste
Strong's KJV usage: :--give self over to fornication.
Strong's first: Jude 1:7Strong's last: Jude 1:7
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taznûwth · taz-nooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
harlotry, i.e. (figuratively) idolatry
Strong's KJV usage: fornication, whoredom.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 16:29Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:29
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G4202
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.
G4202
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.
G4202
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.
G4202
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
G4203
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
G4202
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
G4203
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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fornication
FORNICA'TION, noun [Latin fornicatio.]
1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2. Adultery. Matthew 5:32.
3. Incest. 1 Corinthians 5:1.
4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2 Chronicles 21:11, Revelation 19:2.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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