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Lexicon :: Strong's H7249 - rḇ-srys

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רב־סריס
Transliteration
rḇ-srys
Pronunciation
rab-saw-reece'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From רַב (H7227) and a foreign word for a eunuch
Strong’s Definitions

רַב־סָרִיס Rab-Çârîyç, rab-saw-reece'; from H7227 and a foreign word for a eunuch; chief chamberlain; Rab-Saris, a Babylonian official:—Rab-saris.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's H7249 in the following manner: Rabsaris (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's H7249 in the following manner: Rabsaris (3x).

  1. chief eunuch

    1. Rab-saris, chief eunuch, a high ranking Babylonian official

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רַב־סָרִיס Rab-Çârîyç, rab-saw-reece'; from H7227 and a foreign word for a eunuch; chief chamberlain; Rab-Saris, a Babylonian official:—Rab-saris.
STRONGS H7249: Abbreviations
רַב־סָרִיס (compare Old Aramaic [Nineveh] רב סרס Lzb366), 2 Kings 18:17 (Assyrian; not in || [H7262 Isaiah 36:2]), Jeremiah 39:3, 13 (Babylonian), usually chief eunuch, but = rabû-ša-rêši, chief of the heads (the principal men) WklUnters. x. altor. Geschichte. 1889, Excurs. v, p. 138 (actually found as rubû-ša-ri-ešu PinchesAcad June 25,1892, 618), PinchesHast. DB. RAB-SARIS

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H7227 II. רַב.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Kings

18:17

Jeremiah

39:8; 39:13

H7249

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Strong's Number H7249 matches the Hebrew רב־סריס (rḇ-srys),
which occurs 6 times in 3 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 -

Then the king of Assyria sent [fn]the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rabshakeh [his highest officials] with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they went up and arrived, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the road of the Fuller’s Field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:3 - Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate [establishing both military control of the city and their authority to judge the captives]: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris (chief of the eunuchs), and [fn]Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag (chief of the magicians), with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:13 - So Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard sent word, along with Nebushazban the Rab-saris (chief of the high officials), and Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag (chief of the magicians), and all the leading officers of the king of Babylon;
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