Original: μαλακός

Transliteration: malakós

Phonetic: mal-ak-os'

Short Definition: Effeminate

- Original: μαλακός

- Transliteration: Malakos

- Phonetic: mal-ak-os'

- Definition:

1. soft, soft to the touch

2. metaph. in a bad sense

a. 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

- Origin: of uncertain affinity

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: Of uncertain affinity; soft that is fine (clothing); figuratively a catamite: - effeminate soft.

Cognate: G3119