King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G856
Transliteration: aphedrōn
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ed-rone')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain
Meaning: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain
ἀφεδρών, 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
Word Summary
aphedrōn: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain
Original Word: ἀφεδρώνTransliteration: aphedrōn
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ed-rone')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain
Meaning: a place of sitting apart, a privy, drain
Strong's 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
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