Does Arsenokotai mean lover of boys?
Arsenokotai doesnt mean lover of boys Re: Arsenokotai (ie. homosexuality in Scripture) So...I’m a biblical languages guy who pores over the Hebrew, Greek, and even occasionally Luther’s German text. Unfortunately the whole “it’s about pedophiles not homosexuality” is bad scholarship and fake news. This argument has cropped up a lot in super progressive circles and it’s just not accurate. Arsenokoitai is a hybrid word for man bedding. Man in the sense of male and bedding in the sense of having sex. The word arsenokotai is also not even used in the verse most frequently quoted (Leviticus 18:22). (1) Leviticus was originally in Hebrew and it breaks the elements up instead of using a single word. It reads trans literally as V’et-zakar Lo tis-kab v’et mishkabe ishah towabah hi. Or “with a male (negative) you lie down in the act of lying down sexually as lying (with) a wife an abomination that (is).” All standard words for male, is same word used to distinguish ...