εὐνοῦχος
eunoûchos · G2135 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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eunuch
A castrated male person
ExamplesMatthew 19:12 “For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”
Acts 8:27 So he got ready and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship,
Acts 8:34 The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself, or of someone else?”
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impotent male
A human male who without being castrated is by nature incapable of sexual intercourse
ExamplesMatthew 19:12 “For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”
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celibate
A male person who abstains from marriage without being necessarily impotent
ExamplesMatthew 19:12 “For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”
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court official, eunuch
An official of an Oriental court who was entrusted with various important responsibilities and who was also a eunuch
ExamplesActs 8:27 So he got ready and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship,
Acts 8:34 The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself, or of someone else?”
Acts 8:36 As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- εὐνουχίζωto make a eunuch 2
- γεννάωto beget, to be the father of, to give birth 1
- ἀνήρman, husband 1
What it doesIt is the subject
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- εἰμίto be 3
- εἴδωto know 1
- ἔπωto say 1
- καταβαίνωto come down, to go down 1
- φημίto say 1
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- סָרִיס çârîyç · H5631 · eunuch, official
- סָרִיס (çârîyç, H5631) is the direct Hebrew equivalent, denoting both the literal sense (castrated male) and the extended sense (court official/chamberlain) that εὐνοῦχος (eunoûchos, G2135) carries in Hellenistic Greek contexts.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Court official, eunuch37.85
- In Acts 8:27, Philip meets “an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure,” naming his role as a royal court official.
- Eunuch9.25
- In Matthew 19:12, Jesus says “there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb,” using this word for a eunuch in the ordinary bodily sense.
- Impotent male9.28
- In Acts 8:34, the eunuch himself asks Philip about the prophet's words, illustrating the same lexeme's use for a man in this physically altered, non-procreative condition.
- Celibate9.29
- In Acts 8:36, as they came to some water the eunuch asked to be baptized, the same term continuing to describe him as one living in this unmarried, celibate state.
Word family 51 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὐνούχου, ὁ (from εὐνή a bed, and ἔχω), the Sept. סָרִיס; from Herodotus down; properly,…
a. an emasculated man, a eunuch: Mt 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, Acts 8:34, Acts 8:36, Acts 8:38f; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 973; (B. D. under the word ).
b. one naturally incapacitated — either for marriage, Mt 19:12a; or for begetting children, Wis. 3:14, cf. Grimm, exgt. Hdb. at the passage c. one who voluntarily abstains from marriage: Mt 19:12c. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T. etc., p. 485ff treats of the word more fully.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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