Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /arsenokýtis/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arsenokýtis/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aɾsenokítis/

Noun

ἀρσενοκοίτης • ‎(arsenokoítēs) m ‎(genitive ἀρσενοκοίτου); first declension

1. man who engages in sexual activity with other males, homosexual, sodomite
   • New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 6.9
   • New Testament, First Epistle to Timothy 1.10
2. specifically, the active (penetrating) partner in male homosexual activity, as opposed to the passive partner (μαλακός)

Inflection

References

• ἀρσενοκοίτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρσενοκοίτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀρσενοκοίτης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀρσενοκοίτης» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G733”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἀρσενοκοίτης» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften