noun · masculine
eunouchos
Strong’sG2135
a eunuch, keeper of the bed-chamber
stem eunouch-8 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
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;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2135 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-noo'-khos
a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer)
Fromfrom εὐνή (a bed) and G2192;
King Jameseunuch.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(εὐνή, ἔχω) castrated person, eunuch, employed to take charge of the women and act as chamberlain (whence the name, ὁ τὴν εὐνὴν ἔχων), Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of animals, Refs 3rd c.BC+
3 of dates, without stones, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as adjective, watching the bed, sleepless, λαμπάδες εὐνούχοισιν ὄμμασιν Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eunouchos5×εὐνοῦχος | eunouchois3×εὐνοῦχοι |
| object accusative | eunouchon | eunouchoin |
| direct address vocative | eunouchor | eunouchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | eunouchou | eunouchoiu |
| to, for dative | eunoucho | eunouchoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
eunoucho is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
eunouchos“eunuch”subjectnominative singular5×
Acts 8:27… anastēarantos poreuita, kai idou andros Aithiopos eunouchos dunastos Kandakau basilissau Aithiopoiu, hos ate …… his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of …
Acts 8:34apokrinirantos de tos eunouchos to Filippo legata; Domō su, peri …“Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about …
Acts 8:36… epi tinem hudem, kai fēatō tos eunouchos; Idou hudem, tinem kōluatō min baptizira?… and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What …
Acts 8:38… hudem tos tē Filippos kai tos eunouchos, kai baptizata auton.… chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and …
Acts 8:39… kai ouk horata auton ouketi tos eunouchos, poreuote gar tan hodan autou chairarōntos.… Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went …
eunouchois“eunuchs”subjectnominative plural3×
Matthew 19:12alō gar eunouchois hotinois ek koiliau mētērau gennila houtōs, …For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others …
Matthew 19:12… koiliau mētērau gennila houtōs, kai alō eunouchois hotinois eunouchizila hupo toiu anthrōpoiu, kai …… men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom …
Matthew 19:12“eunuchs”… eunouchizila hupo toiu anthrōpoiu, kai alō eunouchois hotinois eunouchizala heautoin dia tan basileian …… others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven …