ἀφεδρώνaphedrṓn
a place of sitting apart, i.e. a privy
Greek (New Testament) · G856
Meanings
a privy, drain: Matthew 15:17, Mark 7:19.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 15:17 “Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.
- Mark 7:19 Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.