Strong's Number G2135

εὐνοῦχος

eunouchos · yoo-noo'-khos

Transliteration:

eunouchos{yoo-noo'-khos}

Word Origin:

from eune (a bed) and 2192

TDNT:

2:765,277

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Strong's Definition:

a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer)

Usage in the KJV:

eunuch 8

Total: 8
Occurs 8 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

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