Strong's Hebrew · H5631
סָרִיס
çârîyç · saw-reece'
Definitiona eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state
Derivationor סָרִס; from an unused root meaning to castrate;
KJV usagechamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare H7249 (רַב־סָרִיס).
Occurrences42 in the KJV · 42 verses
סָרִיס in Scripture
Genesis 37:36
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh' s, and captain of the guard.
Genesis 39:1
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis 40:2
And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis 40:7
And he asked Pharaoh' s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord' s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly today?
1 Samuel 8:15
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Kings 22:9
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
2 Kings 8:6
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
2 Kings 9:32
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings 20:18
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 23:11
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan -melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2 Kings 24:12
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 24:15
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king' s mother, and the king' s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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