Ephesians 5:3

New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data

"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;"

Word-by-Word Analysis

But

זָנָה

zânâh

H2181

to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...

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and all

טֻמְאָה

ṭumʼâh

H2932

religious impurity

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or

בֶּצַע

betsaʻ

H1215

plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)

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שָׁאַר

shâʼar

H7604

properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant

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it not be once

קָרָא

qârâʼ

H7121

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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תָּוֶךְ

tâvek

H8432

a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre

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you as

נָאָה

nâʼâh

H4998

properly, to be at home, i.e. (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e. beautiful

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חָסִיד

châçîyd

H2623

properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)

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Key Terms in This Verse

becometh H4998

נָאָה nâʼâh

properly, to be at home, i.e. (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e. beautiful

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covetousness H1215

בֶּצַע betsaʻ

plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)

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fornication H2181

זָנָה zânâh

to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of ...

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uncleanness H2932

טֻמְאָה ṭumʼâh

religious impurity

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named H7121

קָרָא qârâʼ

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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saints H2623

חָסִיד châçîyd

properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)

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among H8432

תָּוֶךְ tâvek

a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre

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let H7604

שָׁאַר shâʼar

properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant

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Cross References

Colossians 3:5 cross-reference

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Ephesians 5:5 cross-reference

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

1 Corinthians 6:18 cross-reference

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 cross-reference

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 cross-reference

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1 Corinthians 6:13 cross-reference

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Ephesians 5:12 cross-reference

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Matthew 15:19 cross-reference

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Revelation 2:21 cross-reference

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

1 Corinthians 10:8 cross-reference

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Revelation 22:15 cross-reference

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Revelation 2:14 cross-reference

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u...

Revelation 21:8 cross-reference

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimst...

Exodus 20:17 cross-reference

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

1 Corinthians 5:1 cross-reference

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

Ezekiel 33:31 cross-reference

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth...

Hebrews 12:16 cross-reference

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

2 Peter 2:3 cross-reference

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

2 Corinthians 12:21 cross-reference

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which ...

Revelation 9:21 cross-reference

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

2 Timothy 3:2 cross-reference

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Acts 15:20 cross-reference

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Exodus 18:21 cross-reference

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of ...

Titus 2:3 cross-reference

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Micah 2:2 cross-reference

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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