Strong's G2135 · Greek

εὐνοῦχος

eunouchos · 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)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

εὐνοῦχος (G2135)

8 εὐνοῦχος , -ου, ὁ (i.e. ὁ τὴν εὐνὴν (bed) ἔχων ), [in LXX for סָרִיס (perhaps not of necessity an actual eunuch; DB , s.v.), Ge 39:1 , al., Wi 3:14 , Si 20:4 30:20 ;] an emasculated man, a eunuch : Mt 19:12 ; one such holding, as was common, high office, as of chamberlain, at court, Ac 8:27 , 34 , 36 , 38 , 39 ; metaph., of one naturally incapacitated for or volun­tarily abstaining from wedlock, Mt 19:12 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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