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Matthew 19:12
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King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
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Greek-English Dictionary
a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication a chamberlain (state officer)
1. a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain
a. in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs
b. 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.
c. one naturally incapacitated
1. for marriage
2. begetting children
d. one who voluntarily abstains from marriage
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.