Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H5631 - sārîs

Choose a new font size and typeface
סָרִיס
Transliteration
sārîs
Pronunciation
saw-reece'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to castrate
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1545

Strong’s Definitions

סָרִיס çârîyç, saw-reece'; or סָרִס çâriç; from an unused root meaning to castrate; a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state:—chamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare H7249.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H5631 in the following manner: eunuch (17x), chamberlain (13x), officer (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H5631 in the following manner: eunuch (17x), chamberlain (13x), officer (12x).

  1. official, eunuch

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָרִיס çârîyç, saw-reece'; or סָרִס çâriç; from an unused root meaning to castrate; a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state:—chamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare H7249.
STRONGS H5631: Abbreviations
סָרִיס 45 noun masculine eunuch (Late Hebrew id., Targum סָרִיסָא, Syriac bdb071005 (all with verb denominative = emasculate), Old Aramaic סרסא Lzb331 Cook86; Arabic bdb071006, bdb071007 (verb bdb071008 be impotent), Kam Frey (not Lane); probably foreign word; according to JenZA vii. 174 = Assyrian šarêši (rîši), he who is the head, chief, compare BrockLex 239 b DlHWB 694 (ša-riš ?), ZimZMG liii. 1899, 116; eunuch being specialized meaning; in any case Arabic is Aramaic loan-word); — absolute ס׳ 1 Kings 22:9 + 7 times; construct סְרִיס Genesis 37:36 + 3 times; plural סָרִיסִים 2 Kings 9:32 + 17 times; construct סְרִיסֵי Genesis 40:7 + 4 times; suffix סָרִיסָיו Genesis 40:2 + 4 times, סָרִיסֶ֫יהָ Esther 4:4; — eunuch, of Pharaoh Genesis 37:36; Genesis 40:2, 7 (all E), married Genesis 39:1 (RJE); of Israel kings 1 Samuel 8:15 (predict.), 1 Kings 22:9 2 Chronicles 18:8; 2 Kings 8:6; 2 Kings 9:32 (all of Northern Israel); 1 Chronicles 28:1 (in David's time). 2 Kings 23:11; 2 Kings 24:12, 15 compare Jeremiah 29:2, also Jeremiah 34:19; Jeremiah 38:7; Jeremiah 41:16 (all in Judah; so likewise) 2 Kings 25:19 (military officer) = Jeremiah 52:25; of Babylonian kings 2 Kings 20:18 = Isaiah 39:7 (predict.); ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel, רַב סָרִיסָיו Daniel 1:3, שַׂר הַסָּרִיסִים Daniel 1:7; Daniel 1:8; Daniel 1:9; Daniel 1:10; Daniel 1:11; Daniel 1:18; to king of Persia in Esther 1:10, 12, 15 + 9 times Esther; promises made to eunuchs Isaiah 56:3, 4. (Term never used in law codes; on contrary compare exclusion of דַּכָּא פְּצוּעַ, and כְּרוּת שָׁפְכָה Deuteronomy 23:2 [see Dron the passage], also מְרוֺחַ אָ֑שֶׁךְ Leviticus 21:20.) — רַבסָֿרִיס is title of high military officer 2 Kings 18:17 (Assyrian), Jeremiah 39:3, 13 (Babylonian). — See further, Thes SmithDB Art. ' Eunuch, ' DiGenesis 39:1 DrDeut 23:1.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

37:36; 37:36; 39:1; 39:1; 40:2; 40:2; 40:7; 40:7

Leviticus

21:20

Deuteronomy

23:1; 23:2

1 Samuel

8:15

1 Kings

22:9; 22:9

2 Kings

8:6; 9:32; 9:32; 18:17; 20:18; 23:11; 24:12; 24:15; 25:19

1 Chronicles

28:1

2 Chronicles

18:8

Esther

1:10; 1:12; 1:15; 4:4

Isaiah

39:7; 56:3; 56:4

Jeremiah

29:2; 34:19; 38:7; 39:3; 39:13; 41:16; 52:25

Daniel

1:3; 1:7; 1:8; 1:9; 1:10; 1:11; 1:18

H5631

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5631 matches the Hebrew סָרִיס (sārîs),
which occurs 42 times in 42 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - Meanwhile, in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph [as a slave] to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the [royal] guard.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 -

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the [royal] guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:2 - Pharaoh ([fn]Sesostris II) was extremely angry with his two officials, the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in confinement with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so down-hearted today?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:15 - “He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:9 - Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - When the king asked the woman, she told him [everything]. So the king appointed for her a certain high official, saying, “Restore everything that was hers, including all the produce of the field since the day that she left the land until now.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - Then Jehu raised his face toward the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials looked down at him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - ‘And some of your sons (descendants) who will be born to you will be [fn]taken away [as captives]; and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he got rid of the horses that the kings of Judah had given [in worship] to the sun at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the annex; and he burned the chariots of the sun.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin king of Judah surrendered to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his [palace] officials. So the king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his [own] reign.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 -

Nebuchadnezzar led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also he took the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land [including Ezekiel] as exiles from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And from the city [of Jerusalem] he took an officer who was in command of the men of war, and five men from the king’s personal advisors who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land [for military service] and sixty men from the people of the land who were found in the city.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 -

David assembled at Jerusalem all the leaders (officials) of Israel, the leaders of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, with the palace officers and the mighty men, and all the brave warriors.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8 - Then the king of Israel called for an officer and said, “Bring Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 -

On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was joyful with wine (in high spirits), he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven [fn]eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus [as his attendants],

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12 - But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command, which was delivered [to her] by the eunuchs. So the king became extremely angry and burned with rage.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - [He said,] “According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus which was conveyed by the eunuchs?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - “Let the king appoint administrators in all the provinces of his kingdom, and have them gather all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel in Susa, into the harem, under the custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let their beauty preparations be given to them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she would go in and the next morning she would return to the [fn]second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the [fn]concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 -

Now as for Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her in as his [own] daughter, when her turn came to go in to the king, she requested nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch [and attendant] who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther found favor in the sight of all who saw her.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the door, became [fn]angry and [fn]conspired to attack King Ahasuerus.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 -

When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her [what had happened], the queen was seized by great fear. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he would remove his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to find out what this issue was and why it had come about.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - It was found written there how Mordecai had reported that Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who were doorkeepers, had planned to [fn]attack King Ahasuerus (Xerxes).

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:14 -

While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs (attendants) arrived and hurriedly brought Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs serving the king said, “Now look, there are gallows fifty cubits (75 ft.) high standing at Haman’s house, which Haman made for Mordecai, whose good warning saved the king.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - ‘And [fn]some of your own sons (descendants) who will come from you, whom you will father, will be taken away, and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 -

Do not let the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say,

“The LORD will most certainly separate me from His people.”

And do not let the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:4 -

This is what the LORD says,

“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths

And choose what pleases Me,

And hold firmly to My covenant,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes (court officials) of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - ‘The princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the high officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - Now Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (Cushite), one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern, and while the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the people whom he had rescued from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: the soldiers, the women, the children, and the high officials whom Johanan had brought back from Gibeon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - He also took out of the city one official who was overseer of the soldiers, and seven of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men who were still in the city.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:3 -

And the [Babylonian] king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his [fn]officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some from the royal family and from the nobles,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:7 - The commander of the officials gave them [Babylonian] names: Daniel he named Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abed-nego.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 -

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile (taint, dishonor) himself with the [fn]king’s finest food or with the wine which the king drank; so he asked the commander of the officials that he might [be excused so that he would] not defile himself.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has prearranged your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the young men who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:11 - But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:18 -

At the end of the time set by the king to bring all the young men in [before him], the commander of the officials presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.