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  #2135 εὐνοῦχος eunouchos {yoo-noo'-khos}

 from eune (a bed) and G2192; TDNT - 2:765,277; n m

—Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain
    1a) in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives
        the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office
        held by eunuchs
    1b) an emasculated man, a eunuch
        1b1) eunuchs in oriental courts held by other offices of greater,
             held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned in Ac. 8:27-39.
    1c) one naturally incapacitated
        1c1) for marriage
        1c2) begetting children
    1d) one who voluntarily abstains from marriage

—Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)

From εὐνή [[eune]] (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.