From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Catamite \Cat"a*mite\, n. [L. Catamitus, an old form of
Ganymedes Ganymede, Gr. ?.]
A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
Here are a few verses from the King James, including the one you were discussing.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination." (Leviticus 18:22, King James)
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination: they shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
(Leviticus 20:13, King James)
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind," (1 Corinthians 6:9, King James)
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for
even their women did change the natural use into that which
is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet"
(Romans 1:26-27, King James)
Here's one interesting thing about the New International Version.
The NIV, in Deuteronomy 23:17, says, "No Israelite man or woman
is to become a shrine prostitute."
The KJV says in Deuteronomy 23:17, "There shall be no whore of
the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel."
"Sodomite" is a word that I haven't found in the NIV.
A feminist lesbian named Virginia Mollenkott helped to write the
NIV. Here's some info on Mollenkott.
The New International Version - 1978
http://www.revelationwebsite.co.uk/index1/kjv/mouth4.htm#niv
Let's read something else Ms. Mollenkott had to say.
{2}Virginia Mollenkott wrote, in a letter to Christian
Century (March 7, 1984, p. 252), "I am beginning to
wonder whether indeed Christianity is patriarchal to its
very core. If so, count me out. Some of us may be forced
to leave Christianity in order to participate in Jesus'
discipleship of equals."
I saw that on the following book page.
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http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/cbmw/rbmw/chapter26.html
"Charity, Clarity, and Hope: The Controversy and the Cause of
Christ"
John Piper and Wayne Grudem
"Two New Organizations: Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Christians for Biblical Equality"
(Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
A Response to Evangelical Feminism
Wayne Grudem and John Piper)
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And that's the older NIV, by the way--not the new "gender
inclusive" version. Here are a few more verses that many misconstrue.
"And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" (Matthew 19:16-19, King James).
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil" (Matthew 5:17, King James).
"Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him" (Luke 17:3-4, KJV).