Aphedron
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Aphedron
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The Greek noun aphedron (ἀφεδρών) is a term for latrine. The word occurs twice in the New Testament and was unknown in classical texts. The Vulgate rendered the term secessus, latrine. Wycliffe avoided the reference to a privy with "and beneath it goeth out," while Martin Luther translated the word as natürliche Gang, though Tyndale's "and goeth out into the draught" is more clear. Perhaps due in part to Luther's "natural course," various 18th and 19th Century scholars assumed it was a euphemism
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Greek noun; former hapax legomenon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphedron
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2024-03-18T01:06:38Z
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