by jimwalton » Sun May 10, 2015 3:26 pm
I'm pretty sure that "sodomy" is not a word that's in the Bible. In response to your question I looked for it and can't find it. I looked in a couple of different translations (it's impossible to look in them all), and it's not in the King James, the New International Version (NIV), the New American Standard Bible (NASB), or the Revised Standard Version (RSV). I think I'm safe to say with some confidence that there is no Biblical definition of "sodomy." If someone knows differently, jump in and we can take the discussion from there.
If you want to talk about what happened in Sodom, that's quite possibly different from the way the word "sodomy" evolved to mean what it means today.