to give a prosperous journey; cause to prosper, or be successful; pass. to have a prosperous journey, to succeed in a journey, Rom. 1:10; met. to be furthered, to prosper, temporally or spiritually, 1 Cor.
pr. one who has charge of the bedchamber; hence, a eunuch, one emasculated, Mt. 19:12; as eunuchs in the East often rose to places of power and trust, hence, a minister of a court, Acts 8:27, 34, 36, 38f.*