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Strong's Number G3120

μαλακός
malakos · mal-ak-os'
Transliteration:
malakos{mal-ak-os'}
Word Origin:
of uncertain affinity
Part of Speech:
adjective
Strong's Definition:
soft, i.e. fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite
Usage in the KJV:
soft 3, effeminate 1

Total: 4
Occurs 4 times in the Greek text.
Definition:
  1. soft, soft to the touch
  2. metaph. in a bad sense
    1. effeminate
      1. of a catamite
      2. of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
      3. of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
      4. of a male prostitute
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament