UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: ἀφεδρών; -ῶνος

Related lemmas: ἕδρα · ἑδραῖος

Sense 1: latrine, toilet

Semantic entry: 7.72

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Miscellaneous Constructions

Notes: The term ἀφεδρών occurs only in RV MAT 15:17 · LV MAT 15:17 · Read together MAT 15:17 and RV MRK 7:19 · LV MRK 7:19 · Read together MRK 7:19 and may be rendered in a number of languages as ‘place of defecation.’ In some languages, however, a reference to a toilet may seem inappropriate for the Scriptures, and it is possible to translate a passage such as RV MAT 15:17 · LV MAT 15:17 · Read together MAT 15:17 as ‘goes into the stomach and then passes on out.’ The meaning is thus clear without a specific reference to a latrine or toilet.

MAT 15:17: RV MAT 15:17 · LV MAT 15:17 · Read together MAT 15:17

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OET-RV MAT 15:17

17 “Can’t you apprentices see that everything that goes into your mouth then goes down into your stomach, and eventually ends up in the toilet?

OET-LV MAT 15:17

17 Are _you _all _understanding not _yet that everything which entering _in into the mouth, is _entering into the stomach, and is _being _thrown _out to the_latrine?

MRK 7:19: RV MRK 7:19 · LV MRK 7:19 · Read together MRK 7:19

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OET-RV MRK 7:19

19 because it doesn’t enter your mind but merely goes into your stomach and ends up in the toilet.” (By saying this he clearly showed that it was ok for Yehudim (Jews) to eat any food.)

OET-LV MRK 7:19

19 because it _is_ not _entering _in into the heart of _him but into the belly, and it _is _going _out into the latrine?
(Purifying all the foods.
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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀφεδρών

Form 1

Sense 1: latrine, toilet