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
Open full G4202 profile →πορνεύω
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
Open full G1608 profile →תַּזְנוּת
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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G4203
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
G4203
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
G4202
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
G4202
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
G4202
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.
G4203
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.
G4202
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.
G4202
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:
G4202
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.
G4203
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.
G4203
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
G4202
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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