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What Does “Eunuch” Mean in the Bible?

Office or title

In ancient courts, a trusted servant of the king or queen. Philip baptized one from Ethiopia.

Where it appears in the Bible

Acts 8:27

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.

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

Source: RAE, “eunuco”; Acts 8:27

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