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Strong's #2135 - εὐνοῦχος
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- a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain
- in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs
- an emasculated man, a eunuch
- eunuchs in oriental courts held by other offices of greater, held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned in Ac. 8:27-39.
- one naturally incapacitated
- for marriage
- begetting children
- one who voluntarily abstains from marriage
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εὐνοῦχος, ὁ, (εὐνή, ἔχω)
I
1. castrated person, eunuch, employed to take charge of the women and act as chamberlain (whence the name, ὁ τὴν εὐνὴν ἔχων), Hdt. 3.130, al., Ar. Ach. 117, X. Cyr. 7.5.60, etc.
2. of animals, Philostr. Her. 1.3, Sch.Par. A.R. 1.585.
3. of dates, without stones, Arist. Fr. 267: — Pythag. name for θρίδαξ, Lycusap. Ath. 2.69e.
II as Adj., watching the bed, sleepless, λαμπάδες εὐνούχοισιν ὄμμασιν S. Fr. 789.
εὐνοῦχος, εὐνούχου, ὁ (from εὐνή a bed, and ἔχω), the Sept. סָרִיס; from Herodotus down; properly, a bed-keeper, bed-guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain, in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives; the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs; hence,
a. an emasculated man, a eunuch: Matthew 19:12b. But eunuchs in oriental courts held other offices of greater or less importance, like the oversight of the treasury, held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned in Acts 8:27, 34, 36, 38f; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 973; (B. D. under the word
b. one naturally incapacitated — either for marriage, Matthew 19:12a; or for begetting children, Wis. 3:14, cf. Grimm, exgt. Hdb. at the passage c. one who voluntarily abstains from marriage: Matthew 19:12c. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T. etc., p. 485ff treats of the word more fully.
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εὐνοῦχος , -ου , ὁ
(i.e. ὁ τὴν εὐνὴν (bed) ἔχων ),
[in LXX for H5631 (perhaps not of necessity an actual eunuch; DB, s.v.), Genesis 39:1, al., Wisdom of Solomon 3:14, Sirach 20:4; Sirach 30:20;]
an emasculated man, a eunuch: Matthew 19:12; one such holding, as was common, high office, as of chamberlain, at court, Acts 8:27; Acts 8:34-39; metaph., of one naturally incapacitated for or voluntarily abstaining from wedlock, Matthew 19:12.†
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Vett. Val. p. 86.34 ὁ τοιοῦτος γέγονεν εὐνοῦχος ἱερεὺς θεᾶς ἐπίσημος : cf. also p. 18.19. The word occurs in the address of the late BGU III. 725 (A.D. 615) εἰς τὸν εὐδοκιμ (ώτατον) ἄπα Ὄλ εὐνοῦχον. It survives in MGr.
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