Revelation 17:2:18Rev.17.2.W18TAB
πορνείας
porneias
“sexual immorality”
- Transliteration
- por-NEI-as
- Extended
- por-NEI-ahs
- IPA
- /porˈnei.as/
Meaning by language
- English
- sexual immorality
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
por-NEI-as
- sentence
meth HÊS e-POR-neu-san hoi ba-si-LEIS tês GÊS kai e-me-THY-STHÊ-san hoi ka-toi-KOUN-tes tēn GÊN ek tou OI-nou tês por-NEI-as au-TÊS
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase ek tou oinou tēs porneias autēs {ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς | ek tou oínou tēs porneías autēs} 'from the wine of her sexual immorality' expresses means or instrument, with the genitive chain tou oinou … tēs porneias functioning both to denote the source and to characterize the nature of the intoxicant. In English, the relative clause and the coordinated clause are rendered as two tightly linked statements, preserving the causal progression while adopting a clear subject–verb–object sequence.
Root and etymology
porneuōpi–omicron–rho–nu–epsilon–upsilon–omega
“illicit sexual activity”
In context — Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth had sexual immorality , and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk from the wine of her sexual immorality.
About this coordinate
Revelation 17:2:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Revelation 17:2, so the Greek word πορνείας (porneias) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Rev.17.2.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Rev.17.2.W18.S1) and character.