| 1. a bed keeper, bed guard, superintendent of the bedchamber, chamberlain
1) in the palace of oriental monarchs who support numerous wives the superintendent of the women's apartment or harem, an office held by eunuchs 2) an emasculated man, a eunuch 1b1. eunuchs in oriental courts held by other offices of greater, held by the Ethiopian eunuch mentioned in Ac. 8:27-39. 3) one naturally incapacitated 1c1. for marriage 1c2. begetting children 4) one who voluntarily abstains from marriage |