Word Summary
arsenokoitēs: a sodomite
Original Word: ἀρσενοκοίτηςTransliteration: arsenokoitēs
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a sodomite
Meaning: a sodomite
Strong's Concordance
homosexual
From arrhen and koite; a sodomite -- abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.
see GREEK arrhen
see GREEK koite
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 733: ἀρσενοκοίτηςἀρσενοκοίτης,
ἀρσενοκοιτου,
ὁ (
ἄρσην a male;
κοίτη a bed),
one who lies with a male as with a female, a sodomite:
1 Corinthians 6:9;
1 Timothy 1:10. (Anthol. 9, 686, 5; ecclesiastical writings.)