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Lexicon :: Strong's H5631 - sārîs

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סָרִיס
Transliteration
sārîs
Pronunciation
saw-reece'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to castrate
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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.
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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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:2 - And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains -- with the chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces so sad to-day?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:15 - And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his chamberlains and to his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:9 - Then the king of Israel called a chamberlain, and said, Fetch quickly Micah the son of Imlah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - And the king asked the woman, and she told him. And the king appointed a certain chamberlain, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the revenue of the land since the day that she left the country even until now.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And two or three chamberlains looked out to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be chamberlains in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he abolished the horses that the kings of Judah had appointed to the sun at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun, with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his chamberlains; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his chamberlains, and the mighty of the land, he led into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And out of the city he took a chamberlain that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the princes of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the captains over thousands, and the captains over hundreds, and the comptrollers of all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the chamberlains, and the mighty men, and all the men of valour, unto Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8 - Then the king of Israel called a chamberlain, and said, Fetch quickly Micah the son of Imlah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, when the king's heart was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of king Ahasuerus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12 - But the queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king which was sent by the chamberlains; and the king was very wroth, and his fury burned in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - What shall be done to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not performed the word of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the young virgins of beautiful countenance to Shushan the fortress, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, unto the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, keeper of the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained grace in the sight of all them that saw her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - And Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he received it not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther called for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to wait upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, keepers of the threshold, who had sought to lay hand on king Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:14 - While they were yet talking with him, the king's chamberlains came, and hasted to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold, also, the gallows fifty cubits high, that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - And let not the son of the alien, that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak saying, Jehovah hath entirely separated me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:4 - for thus saith Jehovah: Unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem);

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - -- the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon -- now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the men of war, and seven men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land. And sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:3 - And the king spoke unto Ashpenaz the chief of his eunuchs, that he should bring of the children of Israel, both of the royal seed and of the nobles,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:7 - And the prince of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar, and to Hananiah, Shadrach, and to Mishael, Meshach, and to Azariah, Abed-nego.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not pollute himself with the king's delicate food, nor with the wine which he drank; and he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not have to pollute himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - And God granted Daniel favour and mercy before the prince of the eunuchs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse liking than the youths who are of your age? and ye would endanger my head with the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:11 - And Daniel said to the steward, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:18 - And at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
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