{"def":{"short":"a castrated person (such being employed in Middle Eastern bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer)","long":["a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain",["in the palace of Middle Eastern monarchs who support numerous wives the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs","an emasculated man, a eunuch",["eunuchs in Middle Eastern courts held by other offices of greater, held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned (see Acts 8:27–39)"],"one naturally incapacitated",["for marriage","begetting children"],"one who voluntarily abstains from marriage"]]},"deriv":"from εὐνή (a bed) and G2192","pronun":{"ipa":"ɛβˈnu.xos","ipa_mod":"evˈnu.xows","sbl":"eunouchos","dic":"ev-NOO-hose","dic_mod":"ave-NOO-hose"},"see":["G2192"]}