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What Does “Court official” Mean in the Bible?

Office or title

A king’s or a queen’s trusted man, who held great power.

Where it appears in the Bible

Acts 8:27; Genesis 37:36

What the Bible says

Acts 8:27

And rising up, he went. And behold a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge over all her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to adore.

Genesis 37:36

The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “valido”

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