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In a broader sense, it can also refer to someone who is celibate or abstains from marriage for religious reasons. The term is used in the New Testament to describe both literal eunuchs and those who choose celibacy for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In ancient cultures, eunuchs were often employed in positions of trust within royal households, particularly in the care of the king's harem, due to their perceived loyalty and inability to procreate. Eunuchs could also hold significant political power and influence. In Jewish and early Christian contexts, the concept of a eunuch extended to those who chose celibacy for spiritual purposes, reflecting a commitment to God that transcended traditional family structures.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>2135</b> <i>eunoú<smallcaps>x</smallcaps>os</i> – properly, "alone in bed" (i.e. without a marriage partner) – literally, a <i>castrated</i> (emasculated) man; a <i>eunuch</i>; " 'a chamberlain, keeper of the bed-chamber' of an Eastern potentate, 'a eunuch' " (Souter); (figuratively) someone who<i> abstains from marriage</i> (sexual relations) to be <i>solely devoted to God</i> – as in Mt 19:12 where <a href="/greek/2135.htm">2135</a> (<i>eunoúxos</i>) refers to someone who voluntarily chooses a life of <i>sexual abstinence</i> (see also <i>LXX</i>: Est 2:14,15; Is 56:3,4).</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from euné (a bed) and <a href="/greek/2192.htm">echó</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>a eunuch<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>eunuch (5), eunuchs (3).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 2135: εὐνοῦχος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">εὐνοῦχος</span></span>, <span class="greek2">εὐνούχου</span>, <span class="greek2">ὁ</span> (from <span class="greek2">εὐνή</span> a bed, and <span class="greek2">ἔχω</span>), the <span class="manuref">Sept.</span> <span class="hebrew">סָרִיס</span>; from <span class="abbreviation">Herodotus</span> down; properly, <span class="accented">a bed-keeper, bed-guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain,</span> in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives; <span class="accented">the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem,</span> an office held by eunuchs; hence, <p><span class="emphasized">a.</span> <span class="accented">an emasculated man, a eunuch</span>: <a href="/interlinear/matthew/19-12.htm">Matthew 19:12</a>b. 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 <a href="/interlinear/acts/8-27.htm">Acts 8:27, 34, 36, 38</a>f; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 973; (<span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> under the word <REFERENCE_WORK:Smith's Bible Dictionary><TOPIC:Eunuch>). <p><span class="emphasized">b.</span> <span class="accented">one naturally incapacitated — either for marriage,</span> <a href="/interlinear/matthew/19-12.htm">Matthew 19:12</a>a; or <span class="accented">for begetting children,</span> Wis. 3:14, cf. Grimm, exgt. Hdb. at the passage c. <span class="accented">one who voluntarily abstains from marriage</span>: <a href="/interlinear/matthew/19-12.htm">Matthew 19:12</a>c. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T. etc., p. 485ff treats of the word more fully.<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>eunuch. <p>From eune (a bed) and <a href="/greek/2192.htm">echo</a>; a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer) -- eunuch. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/2192.htm">echo</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>ευνουχοι ευνούχοι εὐνοῦχοι ευνούχοις ευνούχον ευνουχος ευνούχος εὐνοῦχος ευνούχου ευνούχους ευνούχω ευνούχων eunouchoi eunoûchoi eunouchos eunoûchos<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/matthew/19-12.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 19:12</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural">N-NMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/19.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">εἰσὶν γὰρ <b>εὐνοῦχοι</b> οἵτινες ἐκ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/19.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> <span class="itali">For there are eunuchs</span> who were born<br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/19.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> there are <span class="itali">some eunuchs,</span> which<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/19-12.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> there are indeed <span class="itali">eunuchs</span> who from [the]<p><b><a href="/text/matthew/19-12.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 19:12</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural">N-NMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/19.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ εἰσὶν <b>εὐνοῦχοι</b> οἵτινες εὐνουχίσθησαν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/19.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> womb; <span class="itali">and there are eunuchs</span> who<br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/19.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> there are <span class="itali">some eunuchs,</span> which<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/19-12.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and there are <span class="itali">eunuchs</span> who were made eunuchs<p><b><a href="/text/matthew/19-12.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 19:12</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural">N-NMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/19.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ εἰσὶν <b>εὐνοῦχοι</b> οἵτινες εὐνούχισαν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/19.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> by men; <span class="itali">and there are [also] eunuchs</span> who<br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/19.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> and there be <span class="itali">eunuchs,</span> which have made<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/19-12.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and there are <span class="itali">eunuchs</span> who made eunuchs of<p><b><a href="/text/acts/8-27.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 8:27</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἀνὴρ Αἰθίοψ <b>εὐνοῦχος</b> δυνάστης Κανδάκης</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> and there was an Ethiopian <span class="itali">eunuch,</span> a court official<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> of Ethiopia, <span class="itali">an eunuch</span> of great authority<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8-27.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> a man an Ethiopian <span class="itali">a eunuch</span> one in power [under] Candace<p><b><a href="/text/acts/8-34.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 8:34</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">δὲ ὁ <b>εὐνοῦχος</b> τῷ Φιλίππῳ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> <span class="itali">The eunuch</span> answered Philip<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> And <span class="itali">the eunuch</span> answered Philip,<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8-34.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> moreover the <span class="itali">eunuch</span> to Philip<p><b><a href="/text/acts/8-36.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 8:36</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">φησιν ὁ <b>εὐνοῦχος</b> Ἰδοὺ ὕδωρ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> water; <span class="itali">and the eunuch</span> said,<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> water: and <span class="itali">the eunuch</span> said, See,<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8-36.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> says the <span class="itali">eunuch</span> Behold water<p><b><a href="/text/acts/8-38.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 8:38</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ ὁ <b>εὐνοῦχος</b> καὶ ἐβάπτισεν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> as well <span class="itali">as the eunuch,</span> and he baptized<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> Philip and <span class="itali">the eunuch;</span> and he baptized<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8-38.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and the <span class="itali">eunuch</span> and he baptized<p><b><a href="/text/acts/8-39.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 8:39</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">οὐκέτι ὁ <b>εὐνοῦχος</b> ἐπορεύετο γὰρ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> away; <span class="itali">and the eunuch</span> no longer<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> Philip, <span class="itali">that the eunuch</span> saw him<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/8-39.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> no longer the <span class="itali">eunuch</span> he went indeed<p><b><a href="/greek/2135.htm">Strong's Greek 2135</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_2135.htm">8 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/eunouchoi_2135.htm">εὐνοῦχοι — 3 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/eunouchos_2135.htm">εὐνοῦχος — 5 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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