Lexicon malakos: soft, effeminate Original Word: μαλακός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: malakos Phonetic Spelling: (mal-ak-os') Short Definition: soft, effeminate Definition: (a) soft, (b) of persons: soft, delicate, effeminate. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionsoft, effeminate NASB Translationeffeminate (1), soft (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3120: μαλακόςμαλακός, μαλακή, μαλακον, soft; soft to the touch: ἱμάτια, Matthew 11:8 R G L brackets; Luke 7:25 ( ἱματίων πολυτελῶν καί μαλακων, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 78; ἐσθής, Homer, Odyssey 23, 290; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 3; χιτών, Homer, Iliad 2, 42); and simply τά μαλακά, soft raiment (see λευκός, 1): Matthew 11:8 T Tr WH. Like the Latin mollis, metaphorically, and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness, 1 Corinthians 6:9 ( Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 7, 2 under the end; (( Diogenes Laërtius 7, 173 at the end)).
Strong's effeminate, soft. Of uncertain affinity; soft, i.e. Fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite -- effeminate, soft. |
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