H5631 - סָרִיס (çârîyç)

H5631 סָרִיס (çârîyç) saw-reece'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

eunuch

Strong's Definition

a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state

Derivation: or סָרִס; from an unused root meaning to castrate;

KJV Usage: chamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare H7249 (רַב־סָרִיס).

TWOT Reference: 1545

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) official, eunuch

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1413 G2135

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

official, eunuch

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סָרִס / סָרִיס sârý̂ys / sâris BDB Definition: 1) official, eunuch Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to castrate Same Word by TWOT Number: 1545 Total KJV Occurrences: 42

Bible Occurrences (42)

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

8:15

22:9

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

28:1

18:8

1:10 1:12 1:15 2:3 2:14 2:15 2:21 4:4 4:5 6:2 6:14 7:9

39:7 56:3 56:4

29:2 34:19 38:7 41:16 52:25

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

Genesis 37:36

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold [Joseph] in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh [and] captain of the guard.

Genesis 39:1

Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard,... bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers,... the chief cupbearer... and the chief baker,

Genesis 40:7

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s... house, Why are your faces so downcast today?

1 Samuel 8:15

He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

1 Kings 22:9

So the king of Israel... called one of his officials and said, Bring Micaiah son of Imlah {at once}.

2 Kings 8:6

When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it -. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, Restore all that [was] hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.

2 Kings 9:32

He looked up... at the window and called out, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.