Dict: easton - Fornication

Fornication @ in every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law kjv@Leviticus:21:9 kjv@Leviticus:19:29; kjv@Deuteronomy:22:20-21, 23-29; 23:18; kjv@Exodus: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 kjv@Isaiah:1:2; kjv@Jeremiah:2:20; kjv@Ezekiel:16; Hosea:1:2 kjv@Hosea:2:1-5; kjv@Jeremiah:3:8-9).