Lexicon aphedrón: Latrine, place of discharge, privy Original Word: ἀφεδρών Strong's Exhaustive Concordance draught. From a compound of apo and the base of hedraios; a place of sitting apart, i.e. A privy -- draught. see GREEK apo see GREEK hedraios NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and hedraios Definition a place of sitting apart, i.e. a privy, drain NASB Translation eliminated* (2). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 856: ἀφεδρώνἀφεδρών, ἀφεδρωνος, ὁ, apparently a word of Macedonian origin, which Suidas calls 'barbarous'; the place into which the alvine discharges are voided; a privy, sink; found only in Matthew 15:17; Mark 7:19. It appears to be derived not from ἀφ' ἑδρων,a podicibus, but from ἄφεδρος, the same Macedon. word which in Leviticus 12:5; Leviticus 15:19ff answers to the Hebrew נִדָּהsordes menstruorum. Cf. Fischer's full discussion of the word in his De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 698ff Forms and Transliterations αφεδρωνα αφεδρώνα ἀφεδρῶνα aphedrona aphedrôna aphedrōna aphedrō̂naLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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