Lexical Summary
aphedrón: Latrine, place of discharge, privy
Original Word: ἀφεδρών
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: aphedrón
Pronunciation: af-ed-rone'
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ed-rone')
KJV: draught
Word Origin: [from a compound of G575 (ἀπό - since) and the base of G1476 (ἑδραῖος - steadfast)]
1. a place of sitting apart, i.e. a privy
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
hedraiosDefinitiona place of sitting apart, i.e. a privy, drain
NASB Translationeliminated* (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