Word Summary
pornos: a fornicator
Original Word: πόρνοςTransliteration: pornos
Phonetic Spelling: (por'-nos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a fornicator
Meaning: a fornicator
Strong's Concordance
fornicator, whoremonger.
From pernemi (to sell; akin to the base of piprasko); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine) -- fornicator, whoremonger.
see GREEK piprasko
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4205: πόρνοςπόρνος,
πορνου,
ὁ (for the etym. see
πόρνη),
a man who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire, a male prostitute, ((
Aristophanes),
Xenophon,
Demosthenes,
Aeschines,
Lucian); universally,
a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator (
Vulg.fornicator,
fornicarius (
Revelation 22:15impudicus)):
1 Corinthians 5:9-11;
1 Corinthians 6:9;
Ephesians 5:5;
1 Timothy 1:10;
Hebrews 12:16;
Hebrews 13:4;
Revelation 21:8;
Revelation 22:15. (Sir. 23:16f.)