noun · masculine
pornos
Strong’sG4205
a fornicator
stem porn-10 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** πόρνος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Si 23:16-18*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4205 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpor'-nos
akin to the base of G4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine)
Fromfrom πέρνημι (to sell;
King Jamesfornicator, whoremonger.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
catamite, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 sodomite, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 in LXX and NT, fornicator, LXX+NT
II idolater, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pornos3×πόρνος | pornois2×πόρνοι |
| object accusative | pornon | pornoin1×πόρνους |
| direct address vocative | pornor | pornoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | pornou | pornoiu |
| to, for dative | porno | pornoi4×πόρνοις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
porno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
pornos“sexually immoral”subjectnominative singular3×
1 Corinthians 5:11… sunanamigorō ean tinos adelfos onomazorōntos ateiō pornos ē pleonektos ē eidōlolatros ē loidoros …… to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a …
Ephesians 5:5“sexually immoral”houtem gar oidavēr gnōskarōntois hoti pantos pornos ē akathartos ē pleonektos, hem atō …For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater …
Hebrews 12:16mē tinos pornos ē bebēlos hōs Ēsau, hos anti …… to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who …
pornois“fornicators”subjectnominative plural2×
1 Corinthians 6:9“fornicators”… basileian ouk klēronomali? mē planovōr; oute pornois oute eidōlolatrois oute moichois oute malakois …Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who …
Revelation 22:15… kunois kai tois farmakois kai tois pornois kai tois fonevois kai tois eidōlolatrois …… are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone …
pornoin“sexually immoral”objectaccusative plural1×
Hebrews 13:4… en pantoi kai tas koitas amiantas, pornoin gar kai moichoin krinati tos theos.… undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
pornoi“sexually immoral people”to, fordative plural4×
1 Corinthians 5:9… vi en ta epistola mē sunanamigorō pornoi,… my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
1 Corinthians 5:10“sexually immoral people”ouk pantōs toi pornoi tou kosmou houtou ē toi pleonektoi …I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers …
1 Timothy 1:10“fornicators”pornoi, arsenokoitoi, andrapodistoi, pseustoi, epiorkoi, kai ei …… immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone …
Revelation 21:8… apistoi kai bdelussorēntoi kai fonevoi kai pornoi kai farmakoi kai eidōlolatroi kai pantoi …… unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all …