Harlot <1,,4204, porne>
"a prostitute, harlot" (from pernemi, "to sell"), is used (a) literally, in Mat 1:21-32, of those who were the objects of the mercy shown by Christ; in Luk 15:30, of the life of the Prodigal; in 1Co 1:6-16, in a warning to the Corinthian church against the prevailing licentiousness which had made Corinth a byword; in Heb 11:31, Jam 2:25, of Rahab; (b) metaphorically, of mystic Babylon, Rev 17:1, Rev 17:5 (AV, "harlots"), Rev 1:17-16, Rev 19:2, RV, for AV, "whore."
