- μαλακός
- a fresh-ploughed
- μαλακός
- soft, effeminate
- (a) soft, (b) of persons: soft, delicate, effeminate.
- μαλακός
- soft, i.e. fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;KJV Usage: effeminate, soft.
- μαλακός
- soft/effeminate
- G:A
- μαλακός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX: Pro.25:15 (רַךְ) Pro.26:22 (לָהַם)* ;]
soft;
__1. prop., to the touch (opp. to σκληρός): of clothing, pl.,.Refs
Mat.11:8, Luk.7:25
__2. Of persons and their mode of living;
__(a) mild, gentle;
__(b) soft, effeminate: 1Co.6:9 (prob. in obscene sense, cf. Deiss., LAE, 150, 4; MM, xvi; Zorell, see word).†
(AS)
μαλακός, -ή, -όν; soft to the touch: ἱμάτια, Mt. xi. 8 R G L br.; Lk. vii. 25, (ἱμάτίων πολυπτελῶν κ. μαλακῶν, Artem. oneir. 1, 78; ἐσθής, Hom. Od. 23, 290; Artem. oneir. 2, 3; χιτών, Hom. Il. 2, 42); and simply τὰ μαλακά, soft raiment (see λευκός, 1): Mt. xi. 8 T TR WH. Like the Lat. mollis, metaph. and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness, 1 Co. vi. 9 (Dion. Hal. antt. 7, 2 sub fin.; [Diog. Laërt. 7, 173 fin.]).*
1) soft, soft to the touch
2) metaph. in a bad sense
2a) effeminate
2a1) of a catamite
2a2) of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
2a3) of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
2a4) of a male prostitute
2) metaph. in a bad sense
2a) effeminate
2a1) of a catamite
2a2) of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
2a3) of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
2a4) of a male prostitute
μαλακός
malakos
mal-ak-os'
Of uncertain affinity; soft, that is, fine (clothing); figuratively a catamite
KJV Usage: effeminate, soft.