Dictionaries :: Effeminate

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Effeminate:

"soft, soft to the touch" (Lat., mollis, Eng., "mollify," "emollient," etc.), is used

(a) of raiment, Mat 11:8 (twice); Luk 7:25;

(b) metaphorically, in a bad sense, 1Cr 6:9, "effeminate," not simply of a male who practices forms of lewdness, but persons in general, who are guilty of addiction to sins of the flesh, voluptuous.