μαλακός, μαλακή, μαλακον, soft; soft to the touch: ἱμάτια, Mat_11:8 R G L brackets; Luk_7:25 (ἱματίων πολυτελῶν καί μαλακων, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 78; ἐσθής, Homer, Odyssey 23, 290; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 3; χιτών, Homer, Iliad 2, 42); and simply τά μαλακά, soft raiment (see λευκός, 1): Mat_11:8 T Tr WH. Like the Latinmollis, metaphorically, and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness, 1Co_6:9 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 7, 2 under the end; ((Diogenes Laërtius 7, 173 at the end)).

μαλακός malakos 4x soft; soft to the touch, delicate, Mat_11:8 ; Luk_7:25 ; met. an instrument of unnatural lust, effeminate, 1Co_6:9

μαλακός , -ή , -όν , [in LXX : Pro_25:15 ( H7390 ) Pro_26:22 ( H3859 ) * ;] soft; 1. prop ., to the touch ( opp . to σκληρός ): of clothing, pl ., Mat_11:8 , Luk_7:25 . 2. Of persons and their mode of living; (a) mild, gentle; (b) soft, effeminate: 1Co_6:9 (prob. in obscene sense, cf. Deiss., LAE , 150, 4; MM , xvi; Zorell , s.v. ).†

μαλακός [page 387] In P Hib I. 54 .11 ( c. B.C. 245) (= Chrest. I. p. 563) a certain musician Zenobius is described as ὁ μαλακός probably in the same sense in which the word is found in 1Co_6:9 , rather than simply with reference to his style of dancing (as GH and Smyly who compares Plaut. Mil. 668 : Turn ad saltandum nan cinaedus malacus aequest atque ego ) . In a Macedonian inscr. ( Duchesne and Bayet p. 46, No. 66) the words ὁ μαλακός have been added in a different style of writing, after the name of the person commemorated, evidently in satirical allusion to his corrupt mode of life. For the adj. = soft, as in Mat_11:8 , cf. Syll 538 (= .3 970) .8 (B.C. 289 8) τιθέναι τοὺς λίθους τῆς μαλακῆς πέτρας , and Kaibel 649 .4 ἄνθεσιν ἐν μαλακοῖσι . The epithet is applied to wine in PSI VI. 594 .21 (iii/B.C.). The form persists in MGr.

μαλακός μα^λα^κός, ή, όν Lat. mollis, soft, Hom. , etc.; μ. νειός "a fresh-ploughed" fallow, Il. ; μ. λειμών "a soft grassy" meadow, Od. ; μ. παρειαί Soph. ; σώματα Xen. : —adv., καθίζου μαλακῶς sit "softly", i. e. "on a cushion", Ar. of things not subject to touch, "soft, gentle", θάνατος, ὕπνος Hom. ; μαλακῶς εὕδειν to sleep "softly", Od. ; μαλακὰ ἔπεα, μ. λόγοι "soft, fair" words, Hom. ; μ. βλέμμα "tender, youthful" looks, Ar. ; "light, mild", ζημία Thuc. in bad sense, of persons, "soft, yielding, remiss", id=Thuc. , Xen. :—adv., μαλακωτέρως ἀνθήπτετο attacked him "somewhat feebly", Thuc. : —also "faint-hearted, effeminate, cowardly", id=Thuc. , Xen. ; μαλακὸν οὐδὲν ἐνδιδόναι not to give in "from want of spirit", not to flag a whit, Hdt. , Ar.

μαλακός, -ή, -όν [in LXX: Pro.25:15 (רַךְ) Pro.26:22 (לָהַם)* ;] soft; __1. prop., to the touch (opposite to σκληρός): of clothing, pl., Mat.11:8, Luk.7:25. __2. Of persons and their mode of living; __(a) mild, gentle; __(b) soft, effeminate: 1Co.6:9 (prob. in obscene sense, cf. Deiss., LAE, 150, 4; MM, xvi; Zorell, see word).† (AS)