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Koine Greek wordlink #14811

SR GNT Mat 21:31 πόρναι (pornai) ‘tax_collectors and the prostitutes are going_before you_all into’ Strongs=42040 Lemma=pornē
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form πόρναι (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πόρναι’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘prostitutes’.

Mat 21:32 ‘tax_collectors and the prostitutes believed in him you_all’ SR GNT Mat 21:32 word 19

OET-LV: 32 For/Because Yōannaʸs came to you _all in the_way of _righteousness, and you _all_ not _believed in _him, but the tax _collectors and the prostitutes believed in _him, and you _all having _seen, you _all _were_ not _regretful later which to _believe in _him. (MAT_21:32)

OET-RV: 32 because Yohan came to you all teaching the road to becoming right with God, but you didn’t believe that he was sent by God. Yet the tax collectors and prostitutes believed in him, and still, even when you saw that, you didn’t later regret and change your minds and believe. (MAT 21:32)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pornē’ have 3 different glosses: ‘of a prostitute’, ‘prostitute’, ‘prostitutes’.

Greek words (2) other than πόρναι (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘prostitutes’

LUKE 15:30 πορνῶν (pornōn) N-GFP ‘the living with prostitutes he came you sacrificed for him’ SR GNT Luke 15:30 word 19

OET-LV: 30 But when the this son of _you, he _came which having _devoured the living of _you with prostitutes, you _sacrificed the grain _fed calf for _him. (LUK_15:30)

OET-RV: 30 Yet when this son of yours comes home after using up your money living with prostitutes, then you slaughter the fattened calf for him!’ (LUK 15:30)

REV 17:5 πορνῶν (pornōn) N-GFP ‘the mother of the prostitutes and of the abominations’ SR GNT Rev 17:5 word 15

OET-LV: 5 and on the forehead of _her was a_name having _been _written: Mystery Babulōn/(Bāⱱel? ) the great, the mother of _the prostitutes, and of _the abominations of _the earth. (REV_17:5)

OET-RV: 5 and a name was written on her forehead. The name was a mystery: ‘Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and the Abominations of the Earth.’ (REV 17:5)

Key: N=noun GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural