Strong's Number 2135

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
eunouchos {yoo-noo'-khos}
Word Origin:
from eune (a bed) and 2192
TDNT:
2:765,277
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
eunuch 8

Total: 8
Definition:
  1. a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain
    1. in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs
    2. an emasculated man, a eunuch
      1. eunuchs in oriental courts held by other offices of greater, held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned in Ac. 8:27-39.
    3. one naturally incapacitated
      1. for marriage
      2. begetting children
    4. one who voluntarily abstains from marriage
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament