Lexical Summary
ekporneuó: To commit fornication, to engage in sexual immorality
Original Word: ἐκπορνεύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekporneuó
Pronunciation: ek-por-nyoo'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-porn-yoo'-o)
KJV: give self over to fornication
NASB: gross immorality, indulged in gross immorality
Word Origin: [from G1537 (ἐκ - among) and G4203 (πορνεύω - committed immorality)]
1. to be utterly unchaste
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
give self over to fornication.
From ek and porneuo; to be utterly unchaste -- give self over to fornication.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK porneuo
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
ek and
porneuóDefinitionmid. to give oneself up to fornication
NASB Translationgross immorality (1), indulged in gross immorality (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1608: ἐκπορνεύωἐκπορνεύω: 1 aorist participle feminine
ἐκπορνεύσασα; (the prefix
ἐκ seems to indicate a lust that gluts itself, satisfies itself completely); the
Sept. often for
זָנָה; "to go a whoring, 'give oneself over to fornication'"
A. V.:
Jude 1:7. Not found in secular writings. (
Test xii. Patr. test. Dan § 5;
Pollux 6, 30 (126).)