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Lexicon :: Strong's G2135 - eunouchos

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εὐνοῦχος
Transliteration
eunouchos (Key)
Pronunciation
yoo-noo'-khos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From eune (a bed) and ἔχω (G2192)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:765,277

Strong’s Definitions

εὐνοῦχος eunoûchos, yoo-noo'-khos; from εὐνή eunḗ (a bed) and G2192; a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer):—eunuch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G2135 in the following manner: eunuch (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G2135 in the following manner: eunuch (8x).

  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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
εὐνοῦχος eunoûchos, yoo-noo'-khos; from εὐνή eunḗ (a bed) and G2192; a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer):—eunuch.
STRONGS G2135:
εὐνοῦχος, -ου, ὁ, (from εὐνή a bed, and ἔχω), 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 Eunuch].
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 lexx. N. T. etc., p. 485ff treats of the word more fully.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
19:12; 19:12; 19:12
Acts
8:27; 8:34; 8:36; 8:38

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2135 matches the Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunouchos),
which occurs 31 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:2 - Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:15 - He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:9 - So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - The king asked the woman about it, and she told him. Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[fn] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8 - So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12 - But when the attendants delivered the king’s command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - “According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?” he asked. “She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana[fn] and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - When Esther’s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:14 - While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[fn] stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say, “The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:4 - For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This was after King Jehoiachin[fn] and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the skilled workers and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led away all the people of Mizpah who had survived, whom Johanan had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam—the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had recovered from Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.
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