Sexual sinner
πόρνοςStrong’s G4205pornos
Appears in 10 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pornos is the Greek word usually translated “sexually immoral” and “fornicator”. It appears in 10 verses of the New Testament.
“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;”
Meaning
Usually translated “sexually immoral” and “fornicator”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- sexually immoral 6
- fornicator 2
- for the sexually immoral 1
- to the sexually immoral 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Corinthians 4
- Hebrews 2
- Revelation 2
- Ephesians 1
- 1 Timothy 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
- 1 Corinthians 5:10Yet 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.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11But 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.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Know 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,
- Ephesians 5:5For 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.
- Hebrews 12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Greek dictionary
πόρνος pornos · sexual sinner
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fornicator” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORN'ICATOR, noun
- An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal conversation with the other sex; also, a married man who has sexual commerce with an unmarried woman. [See Adultery.]
- A lewd person.
- An idolater.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.