A eunuch is a man who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BC.

Who is an eunuch in the Bible?

In Matthew 19:12 three classes of people unable to marry are men- tioned, namely those who have been unfit to do so since childhood (congenital eunuchs), those who have become unfit through disable- ment by human hands (eunuchs) and those who have voluntarily chosen, to the glory of the Kingdom of God, to abstain from ...

What is a eunuchs purpose?

Eunuch, castrated human male. From remote antiquity, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and in China in two main functions: as guards and servants in harems or other women's quarters, and as chamberlains to kings.