Definition

a sodomite

Etymology

from G730 (ἄῤῥην) and G2845 (κοίτη);

Word family

• ἄῤῥην árrhēn
• κοίτη koítē

How the KJV renders it

• abuser of (that defile) self with mankind

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.