Lexicon eunouchizó: to make a eunuch of Original Word: εὐνουχίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: eunouchizó Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-noo-khid'-zo) Short Definition: emasculate, castrate Definition: I make into a eunuch, emasculate, castrate. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2134 eunouxízō – literally, make someone a eunuch; to emasculate (castrate). See 2135 (eunouxos). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eunouchosDefinitionto make a eunuch of NASB Translationmade eunuchs (1), made...eunuchs (1).
Thayer's 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.)
Strong's castrate, emasculate From eunouchos; to castrate (figuratively, live unmarried) -- make...eunuch. see GREEK eunouchos |
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