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Strong's #2135: eunouchos (pronounced yoo-noo'-khos)

from eune (a bed) and 2192; a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer):--eunuch.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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eunouchos

1) a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain

1a) in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives the superintendent of the women' s apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs

1b) an emasculated man, a eunuch

1b1) eunuchs in oriental courts held by other offices of greater, held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned in Acts 8:27-39.

1c) one naturally incapacitated

1c1) for marriage

1c2) begetting children

1d) one who voluntarily abstains from marriage

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from eune (a bed) and G2192

Citing in TDNT: 2:765, 277




Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Matthew 19:12: "For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's"
Matthew 19:12: "womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men:"
Matthew 19:12: "men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake."
Acts 8:27: "behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians,"
Acts 8:34: "And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee,"
Acts 8:36: "water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what"
Acts 8:38: "Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him."
Acts 8:39: "Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more:"









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