Words the Bible translates as commit adultery
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- na'aphנָאַףto commit adultery: to have sex with someone who is married or engaged to another person, breaking that marriage bond
- moicheuōμοιχεύωto commit adultery: to break a marriage by sexual unfaithfulness to one's spouse.
- porneuōπορνεύωto commit sexual immorality: to actually engage in sex that falls outside the boundaries the law of Moses set for marriage
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- to be unfaithful to God by binding oneself to a corrupt power, pictured as sleeping with a prostitute
- moichaōμοιχάωto commit adulterynot studied yet
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