Definition

harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry

Etymology

from G4203 (πορνεύω);

Word family

• πορνεύω porneúō

How the KJV renders it

• fornication

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.