Fornication - What does it really mean?

cognac

I've done research on the subject and realized that it really is talking about whoredom when its referenced in the bible. Any other points regarding that word?

Layla33

My experience is that fornication is anything they want it to mean regarding aspects of your sexuality and engaging in such acts with someone that is NOT your spouse.

I have more to say on this subject, but I am curious to read what other's will say.

Finally-Free

Fornication - What does it really mean?

It's been so long I've forgotten.

W

JK666

cognac,

If you weren't married, I would show you.

JK

cognac

If you weren't married, I would show you.

JK

That was shocking!!!

worldtraveller

Yes it's true, in order to have pork chops, you have to live with pigs.

Regarding that word, it's just another version of the "F" word. Truly vulgar, ad if a JW says it, it's even more disgusting and creepy-especially for one of Jehovahs flock to think it's ok.

Bryan

We had new topic on this lately, but search seems abit slow this morning.

bikerchic

I've done research on the subject and realized that it really is talking about whoredom when its referenced in the bible. Any other points regarding that word?

cognac you're right about how the Bible references the word fornication. I looked it up at www.dictionary.com here is what it said:

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for·ni·ca·tion alt / ?f?r alt n?'ke? alt ??n / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ fawr-ni-key-shuh alt n ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun

1.	voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.

2.	Bible . idolatry.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME fornicacioun < LL fornication- (s. of fornicatio). See fornicate 1 , -ion alt

]
—Related forms for·ni·ca·to·ry

/ 'f?r

n?

k??t?r

i, -?to?r alt

i / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ fawr-ni-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation , adjective

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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

for·ni·ca·tion

(fôr'ni-ka'sh?n) Pronunciation Key
n. Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.

Word History: The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicatio, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch." The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicari, "to commit fornication," from which is derived fornicatio, "whoredom, fornication." Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fornication
c.1300, from O.Fr. fornication, from L.L. fornicationem (nom. fornicatio ), from fornicari "fornicate," from L. fornix (gen. fornicis ) "brothel," originally "arch, vaulted chamber" (Roman prostitutes commonly solicited from under the arches of certain buildings), from fornus "oven of arched or domed shape." Strictly, "voluntary sex between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman;" extended in the Bible to adultery.

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fornication
noun
1.	voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other
2.	extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" [syn: adultery]

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

for·ni·ca·tion (fôr
n.

Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.

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Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: for·ni·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "for-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
: consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: for·ni·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "for-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin fornicatio, from fornicare to have intercourse with prostitutes, from Latin fornic- fornix arch, vault, brothel
: consensual sexual intercourse between a man and esp. single woman who are not married to each other; also: the crime of engaging in fornication —compare ADULTERY
NOTE: Where still considered a crime, fornication is classified as a misdemeanor.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Fornication

in every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.) But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols (Isa. 1:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos. 1:2; 2:1-5; Jer. 3:8,9).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

The definition given here goes along with what I was taught as a JW, it has many meanings some of the meanings symbolic such as when the JW's refer to Babylon the Great and Christendom committing fornication, bla,bla,bla....

delilah

Well, in my old congregation, Fornication was something only one of two elders got away with....but anyone else found to have engaged in it, was df'd.

t'was the best I could do for now, sorry....

Fornication - What does it really mean?

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