πορνεία

porneiva porneiva,
porneiva",
hJ (
porneuvw), the Septuagint for tWnz?T', tWnz?, !ynIWnz?, fornication (Vulgate fornicatio (and () prostitutio)); used a. properly, of illicit sexual intercourse in general (Demosthenes, 403, 27; 433, 25): ,; (that this meaning must be adopted in these passages will surprise no one who has learned from ff how leniently converts from among the heathen regarded this vice and how lightly they indulged in it; accordingly, all other interpretations of the term, such as of marriages within the prohibited degrees and the like, are to be rejected); Rec.; ; ,; ; ; ; ; ; ; it is distinguished from
moiceiva in ; ; and Rec.; used of adultery ((cf. (4), etc.)), ; . b. In accordance with a form of speech common in the O. T. and among the Jews which represents the close relationship existing between Jehovah and his people under the figure of a marriage (cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 422{a} following),
porneiva is used metaphorically of the worship of idols: ; ,; ; ;
hJmei'"
ejk
porneiva"
ouj
gegennhvmeqa (we are not of a people given to idolatry),
e{na
patevra
e[comen
tovn
Qeovn, (
a[qeo"
mevn
oJ
a[gono",
poluvqeo"
dev
oJ
ejk
povrnh",
tuflwttwn
periv
tovn
ajlhqh'
patevra
kaiv
diav
tou'to
pollouv"
ajnq!
eJnov"
gonei'"
aijnittovmeno", Philo de mig. Abr. sec. 12;
tevkna
porneiva", of idolaters, ; (but in John, the passage cited others understand physical descent to be spoken of (cf. Meyer))); of the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols, .*