STRONGS G856:
ἀφεδρών,
-ῶνος,
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 Macedonian word which in
Leviticus 12:5;
Leviticus 15:19ff answers to the Hebrew
נִדָּה sordes menstruorum. Cf. Fischer's full discussion of the word in his De vitiis lexx.
N. T., p. 698ff
Related entry:
[
ὀχετός,
-οῦ,
ὁ,
1. a water-pipe, duct.
2. the intestinal canal:
Mark 7:19 WH (rejected) marginal reading (others
ἀφεδρών).]
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