arsenokoitos

Strong’sG733

a male engaging in same-gender sexual activity

stem arsenokoit-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.

AI Summary

ἀρσενοκοίτης denotes a man who engages in sexual activity with another male, rendered in the older sources as a sodomite ¹²³ and described by Dodson as a male engaging in same-gender sexual activity ⁴. The word is formed from the terms for "male" and "bed" ¹², and Strong's further glosses it as one who abuses or defiles himself with mankind ².

Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-24 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.

The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:

Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full

*† ἀρσενοκοίτης, -ου, ὁ

(< ἄρσην, κοιτή),

a sodomite: I Co 6:9, I Ti 1:10.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G733 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-sen-ok-oy'-tace

a sodomite

Fromfrom G730 and G2845;

King Jamesabuser of (that defile) self with mankind.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀρρενο-κοίτης, ου, ὁ,
sodomite, Refs; (ἀρσενοκοίτης) NT

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

homosexuals1×sodomites1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	arsenokoitos	arsenokoitois1×ἀρσενοκοῖται
object accusative	arsenokoiton	arsenokoitoin
direct address vocative	arsenokoitor	arsenokoitoir
of, belonging to genitive	arsenokoitou	arsenokoitoiu
to, for dative	arsenokoito	arsenokoitoi1×ἀρσενοκοίταις

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

arsenokoitstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

arsenokoito is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

arsenokoitois“sodomites”subjectnominative plural1×

1 Corinthians 6:9“sodomites”… eidōlolatrois oute moichois oute malakois oute arsenokoitois… immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who …

arsenokoitoi“homosexuals”to, fordative plural1×

1 Timothy 1:10pornoi, arsenokoitoi, andrapodistoi, pseustoi, epiorkoi, kai ei tinem …for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and …