Lexical Summary eunouchizō: to make a eunuch of Original Word: εὐνουχίζωTransliteration: eunouchizō Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-noo-khid'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to make a eunuch of Meaning: to make a eunuch of Strong's Concordance castrate, emasculateFrom eunouchos; to castrate (figuratively, live unmarried) -- make...eunuch. see GREEK eunouchos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2134: εὐνουχίζωεὐνουχίζω: 1 aorist ἐυνουχισα; 1 aorist passive ἐυνουχίσθην; (on the augment cf. Buttmann, 34 (30); WHs Appendix, p. 162); to castrate, unman: passive ὑπό τίνος, Matthew 19:12a; metaphorically, ἐυνουχίζειν ἑαυτόν, to make oneself a eunuch, viz. by abstaining (like a eunuch) from marriage, Matthew 19:12b. (Josephus, Antiquities 10, 2, 2; Lucian, Dio Cassius, others.) |
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