Senses
1. commit sexual immorality, fornicate — To engage in sexual immorality or fornication, covering all grammatical forms of the verb porneuō. All four clusters express the identical lexical meaning — illicit sexual conduct — differing only in tense, mood, and person (aorist indicative/participle, aorist infinitive, present subjunctive, present participle). Arabic consistently renders زَنَى (zanā, 'commit adultery/fornication'), Korean uses 음행하다 (eumhaenghada, 'commit sexual immorality'), Hindi uses व्यभिचार करना (vyabhichār karnā, 'commit adultery'), Swahili uses -zini (fornicate) and uasherati (immorality), and Spanish uses fornicar/fornicar throughout. No semantic distinction warrants separate senses. 8×
AR["أَنْ-يَزْنوا","الزّاني","الَّذينَ زَنَوْا","زَنى","زَنَوا","زَنَوْا","نَزنِ","يَزْنوا"]·ben["আমরা-ব্যভিচার-করি,","ব্যভিচার-করতে","ব্যভিচার-করেছিল,","ব্যভিচার-করেছে","ব্যভিচারকারী,","ব্যভিচারী"]·DE["Unzucht-treiben"]·EN["committed-sexual-immorality","committing-sexual-immorality","having-committed-sexual-immorality","let-us-commit-sexual-immorality","to-fornicate"]·FR["Unzucht-treiben","commettre-la-fornication"]·heb["הַזּוֹנִים","הַזּוֹנֶה","זָנוּ","לִ-זְנוֹת","נִזְנֶה"]·HI["व्यभिचार-करना।","व्यभिचार-करने,","व्यभिचार-करनेवाला","व्यभिचार-करनेवाले","व्यभिचार-करें","व्यभिचार-किया"]·ID["berbuat-zinah","bercabul,","berzinah","berzinah,","berzinah.","kita-berbuat-zinah"]·IT["fornicare","fornicatore"]·jav["kita-laku-jina,","laku-jina","laku-jina,","nglampahaken-jina"]·KO["음행하는-자는","음행하도록","음행하여","음행하였고","음행하였으니","음행하지","음행한-자들과"]·PT["a-fornicar","fornicar","fornicaram,","forniquemos,","prostituídos","prostituíram-se","que-pratica-imoralidade"]·RU["блудили,","блудодействовавшие","блудодействовали","блудодействовать,","блудодействовать.","блудящий,","будем-блудить,"]·ES["fornicando","fornicar","fornicaron","forniquemos","que-fornicaron"]·SW["anayefanya-uasherati,","kuzini,","kuzini.","tusifanye-uasherati,","waliozini","walivyofanya,","walizini","wamezini;"]·TR["ama-","fuhuş yapalım","fuhuş yaptılar","fuhuş-etmek","fuhuş-etmeye","zina-edenler","zina-ettiler"]·urd["حرامکاری-کرنے-والا","زنا-کرنا","زنا-کریں","زنا-کی","زنا-کیا"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
πορν-εύω, prostitute, mostly in passive, of a woman, prostitute herself, be or become a prostitute, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a man, Refs 4th c.BC+ __II intransitive in active, = passive, LXX+3rd c.BC+fornicate, NT __II.2 metaphorically, practise idolatry, LXX