porneuō · commit sexual immorality

What it means

porneuō (πορνεύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “commit sexual immorality”.

Have sexual relations outside marriage; also, in a figurative sense, be unfaithful to God by joining in idolatry.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To have forbidden relations; also be unfaithful to God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• committed sexual immorality ×4
• commit sexual immorality ×3
• commits sexual immorality ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Corinthians×3
• Revelation×5

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

• 1 Corinthians 10:8

  Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

• Revelation 2:14

  But I have a few things against you, that you have there some who hold fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

• Revelation 2:20

  But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

• Revelation 17:2

  with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 18:3

  because all the nations have fallen from the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the power of her luxury.”

• Revelation 18:9

  And the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning,

And 1 more times.