Lexical Summary aphedrōn: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain Original Word: ἀφεδρώνTransliteration: aphedrōn Phonetic Spelling: (af-ed-rone') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain Meaning: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain Strong's Concordance draught. From a compound of apo and the base of hedraios; a place of sitting apart, i.e. A privy -- draught. see GREEK apo see GREEK hedraios Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 856: ἀφεδρώνἀφεδρών, ἀφεδρωνος, ὁ, apparently a word of Macedonian origin, which Suidas calls 'barbarous'; the place into which the alvine discharges are voided; a privy, sink; found only in Matthew 15:17; Mark 7:19. It appears to be derived not from ἀφ' ἑδρων,a podicibus, but from ἄφεδρος, the same Macedon. word which in Leviticus 12:5; Leviticus 15:19ff answers to the Hebrew נִדָּהsordes menstruorum. Cf. Fischer's full discussion of the word in his De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 698ff |
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