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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 BoxGen 37:36 - Meanwhile, the [fn]Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer H5631, the captain of the bodyguard.

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Now Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian official H5631 of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him [fn]from the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:2 - And Pharaoh was furious with his two officials H5631, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh’s officials H5631 who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, saying, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:15 - “He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give it to his officers H5631 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 an officer H5631 and said, “Hasten to bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - Then the king asked the woman, and she recounted it to him. So the king appointed for her a certain officer H5631, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials H5631 looked down at him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - ‘And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away; and they will become officials H5631 in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official H5631, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Then Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his officials H5631. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

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So he took Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials H5631 and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And from the city he took one official H5631 who was overseer of the men of war, and five [fn]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the [fn]scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

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And David assembled at Jerusalem all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials H5631 and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8 - Then the king of Israel called an officer H5631 and said, “Hasten to bring Micaiah son of Imla.”

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On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said for Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven eunuchs H5631 who attended to the presence of King Ahasuerus,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:12 - But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king which was delivered by the hand of the eunuchs H5631. Then the king became exceedingly furious, and his wrath burned within him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - “According to law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she did not do the declaration of King Ahasuerus delivered by the hand of the eunuchs H5631?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - “And let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather every young virgin, beautiful in appearance, to the citadel of Susa, to the harem, into the hand of Hegai, the king’s eunuch H5631, who keeps charge of the women; and let their cosmetics be given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the hand of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch H5631 who kept charge of the concubines. She would not again go in to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

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Now when it reached the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she did not seek anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch H5631 who kept charge of the women, said. And Esther advanced in favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

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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 H5631 from those who were doorkeepers, became furious and sought to send forth their hand against King Ahasuerus.

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Then Esther’s young women and her eunuchs H5631 came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and to remove his sackcloth from upon him, but he did not accept them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs H5631, whom [fn]the king had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai to know what this 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 what Mordecai had told concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs H5631 from those who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to send forth their hand against King Ahasuerus.

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While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs H5631 reached Haman’s home and hastily brought Haman to the feast which Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs H5631 who were before the king, said, “Behold indeed, the gallows—which Haman made for Mordecai who spoke good on behalf of the king—are standing at Haman’s house fifty cubits high!” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - ‘And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away, and they will become officials H5631 in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

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Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say,

“Yahweh will surely separate me from His people.”

Nor let the eunuch H5631 say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

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For thus says Yahweh,

“To the eunuchs H5631 who keep My sabbaths,

And choose what pleases Me,

And hold fast My covenant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court H5631 officials H5631, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had gone out from Jerusalem.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court H5631 officers H5631 and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, [fn]a eunuch H5631, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. 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 commanders of the military forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had returned from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the mighty men who were men of war, the women, the little ones, and the eunuchs H5631, whom he had returned from Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - And from the city he took one official H5631 who was overseer of the men of war, and seven [fn]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 of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

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Then the king said for Ashpenaz, the chief of his [fn]officials H5631, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal seed and of the nobles,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:7 - Then the commander of the officials H5631 set names for them; and for Daniel he set the name Belteshazzar, for Hananiah Shadrach, for Mishael Meshach, and for Azariah Abed-nego.

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But Daniel set in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials H5631 that he might not defile himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - Now God granted Daniel lovingkindness and compassion before the commander of the officials H5631,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - and the commander of the officials H5631 said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would [fn]make me forfeit my head to the king.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:11 - But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials H5631 had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

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Then at the end of the days which the king had spoken of for bringing them in, the commander of the officials H5631 brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

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