TBESH · H5631
סָרִיס · sa.ris · eunuch
official, eunuch
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sa.ris H5631
סָרִיס (sa.ris) means “eunuch” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
סָרִיס Hebrew · H5631 42 tagged occurrences in 42 verses
Pronunciation guide: saw-reece' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or סָרִס; from an unused root meaning to castrate; a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state
KJV glosses: chamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare H7249 (רַב־סָרִיס).
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How translators render H5631
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| eunuchs | 7 |
| official | 5 |
| the court officials | 3 |
| an officer | 2 |
| court official | 2 |
| eunuch | 2 |
| of his officials | 2 |
| the eunuchs | 2 |
| a court official | 1 |
| and court officials | 1 |
| and eunuchs | 1 |
| and his officials | 1 |
| and let the eunuch | 1 |
| his eunuchs | 1 |
| his officials | 1 |
| of an official | 1 |
| of his court officials | 1 |
| of the eunuchs | 1 |
| officer | 1 |
| officers | 1 |
| the officials | 1 |
| to his officials | 1 |
| to the eunuchs | 1 |
| trusted official | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the eunuchs | 7 |
| chamberlains | 6 |
| chamberlain | 3 |
| officer | 3 |
| an officer | 2 |
| and his officers | 2 |
| and the eunuchs | 2 |
| and they shall be eunuchs | 2 |
| officers | 2 |
| and her chamberlains | 1 |
| eunuch | 1 |
| eunuchs | 1 |
| his officers | 1 |
| neither let the eunuch | 1 |
| of his eunuchs | 1 |
| of the chamberlains | 1 |
| the chamberlain | 1 |
| the chamberlains | 1 |
| the eunuchs | 1 |
| to his officers | 1 |
| unto the eunuchs | 1 |
| with the officers | 1 |
Verses containing H5631
Page 1 of 1. 42 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 37:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
Read word by word - Genesis 39:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 40:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
Read word by word - Genesis 40:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now David summoned all the leaders of Israel to Jerusalem: the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the divisions in the king’s service, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, along with the court officials and mighty men—every mighty man of valor.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 18:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
Read word by word - Esther 1:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—
Read word by word - Esther 1:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.
Read word by word - Esther 1:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?”
Read word by word - Esther 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
Read word by word - Esther 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
Read word by word - Esther 2:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
Read word by word - Esther 2:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Read word by word - Esther 4:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
Read word by word - Esther 4:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.
Read word by word - Esther 6:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Read word by word - Esther 6:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Read word by word - Esther 7:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
Read word by word - Isaiah 39:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 56:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 56:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—
Read word by word - Jeremiah 29:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 38:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 41:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 52:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
Read word by word - Daniel 1:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
Read word by word - Daniel 1:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
Read word by word - Daniel 1:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
Read word by word - Daniel 1:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,
Read word by word - Daniel 1:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
Read word by word - Daniel 1:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Read word by word - Daniel 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
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