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Fornication
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for-ni-ka'-shun (to commit adultery (zanah))
RELATED: Adultery, Sin |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic
law ( Leviticus
21:9 ; 19:29
; Deuteronomy
22:20 , 22:21
, 22:23
- 29
; 23:18
; Exodus
22:16 ). ( See ADULTERY
)
But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense.
It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols ( Isaiah
1:2 ; Jeremiah
2:20 ; Ezekiel
16 ; Hosea
1:2 ; 2:1
- 5
; Jeremiah
3:8 , 3:9
).
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(no entry)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
for-ni-ka'-shun.
See From CRIMES.
Fornication.
Hebrew, zanah = "to commit adultery," especially of the female, and less frequently
of mere fornication, seldom of involuntary ravishment; also used figuratively
in the sense of idolatry, the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Yahweh
(2 Chronicles 21:11; Isaiah 23:17; Ezekiel 16:26). Once we find the derivative
noun taznuth (Ezekiel 16:29).
In the New Testament, with both the literal and the figurative application, we
find porneia, and porneuo (Matthew 5:32 ; 15:19 ; John 8:41 ; Acts 15:20 ; 1 Corinthians
5:1 ; 6:13 , 18 ; 7:2 ; 10:8 ; 2 Corinthians 12:21 ; Galatians 5:19 ; Ephesians
5:3 ; Colossians 3:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 ; Revelation 2:14 , 20 , 21 ; 9:21
; 14:8 ; 17:2 , 4). The intensive ekporneuo = "to be utterly unchaste" is found
in Jude 1:7. Every form of unchastity is included in the term "fornication."
Frank E. Hirsch
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