’n Eunug is ’n gekastreerde man, gewoonlik een wat vroeg genoeg gekastreer is sodat dit aansienlike hormonale gevolge sou hê. Die term word gewoonlik gebruik vir mans wat gekastreer is sodat hulle spesifieke sosiale funksies kon verrig, soos wat histories in baie gemeenskappe algemeen was.
Bybel
Die Bybel verwys op ’n paar plekke na Eunugs.
Die Hebreeuse woord in Strongs is H5631:
From an unused root meaning to castrate; a eunuch; by implication valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus a minister of state
Die Griekse woord in Strongs is G2135:
a eunuch, keeper of the bed-chamber
(a) a chamberlain, keeper of the bed-chamber of an eastern potentate, eunuch, (b) a eunuch, castrated person, or one who voluntarily abstains from marriage.
Strong’s:
a castrated person (such being employed in Oriental bed-chambers); by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication, a chamberlain (state-officer)
Derivation: from εὐνή (a bed) and G2192;
Verse in die Bybel
- 2 Konings 9:32
- 2 Konings 20:18
- Jesaja 39:7
- Jesaja 56:3-4
- Jeremia 29:2
- Jeremia 34:19
- Jeremia 38:7
- Jeremia 41:16
- Jeremia 52:25
- Daniël 1:3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18
- Matteus 19:12
- Handelinge 8:27,34, 36, 38, 39
Verdere bronne
- Eunug (Wikipedia)