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