KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Unlawful sexual relations. 2. By figure, unfaithful or illicit relations.
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First occurrence: 2 Chronicles 21:11
Complete exact-word concordance
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
But that wee write vnto them, that they abstaine from pollutions of Idoles, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
That ye abstaine from meates offered to idoles, and from blood, & from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, yee shall doe well. Fare ye well.
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
As touching the Gentiles which beleeue, wee haue written and concluded, that they obserue no such thing, saue onely that they keepe themselues from things offered to idoles, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
1611 marginal noteChap. 15.20.
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Historical English dictionary sources
[Latin fornicatio.] 1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman. 2. Adultery. Matthew 5:32. 3. Incest. 1 Corinthians 5:1. 4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2 Chronicles 21:11, Revelation 19:2.
