Greek adjective · G3120
μαλακός
malakosmal-ak-os'
prop.; Of persons and their mode of living
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: malakós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3120is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3120
soft, i.e. fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite
The King James renders it: effeminate, soft.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
malakos is rendered "prop.; Of persons and their mode of living". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "prop.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:8Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
Matthew 11:8μαλακοῖς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: prop., and Of persons and their mode of living.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| prop.to the touch (opposite to σκληρός): of clothing, pl., Mat.11:8, Luk.7:25. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 11:8Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look… |
| Of persons and their mode of living__(a) mild, gentle | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μαλακία | malakia | sickness | Uses3 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μαλακοῖς2
- μαλακὰ1
- μαλακοὶ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural2A-DPN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
Matthew
two uses
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
- μαλακοῖςmalakoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: delicate
- μαλακὰmalakaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: delicate
Luke
one use
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
- μαλακοῖςmalakoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: fine
1 Corinthians
one use
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- μαλακοὶmalakoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: effeminate
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.