Greek noun (masculine) · G2135
εὐνοῦχος
eunouchosyoo-noo'-khos
eunuch
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eunoûchos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2135is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2135
a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer)
The King James renders it: eunuch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eunouchos is rendered "eunuch". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 19:12For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
Matthew 19:12εὐνοῦχοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- eunuch4
- eunuchs3
- a eunuch1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- εὐνοῦχος5
- εὐνοῦχοι3
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular5N-NSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
Matthew
three uses
For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
- εὐνοῦχοιeunouchoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eunuchs
- εὐνοῦχοιeunouchoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eunuchs
- εὐνοῦχοιeunouchoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: eunuchs
Acts
five uses
So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
- εὐνοῦχοςeunouchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a eunuch
“Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”
- εὐνοῦχοςeunouchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eunuch
As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
- εὐνοῦχοςeunouchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eunuch
And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
- εὐνοῦχοςeunouchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eunuch
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
- εὐνοῦχοςeunouchosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: eunuch
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.