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πορνείας (porneias)

πορνείας is an Ancient Greek form of πορνεία, meaning “prostitution; fornication, unchastity”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, Matthew 5.32: Ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ἀπολύων τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ παρεκτὸς λόγου πορνείας ποιεῖ αὐτὴν μοιχευθῆναι[, καὶ ὃς ἐὰν ἀπολελυμένην γαμήσῃ μοιχᾶται].

All forms of πορνεία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.