Çârîyç — H5631

H5631 · Hebrew — סריס

Pronunciation: saw-reece'

Other spellings: çâriç סָרִס

Definition

masculine noun

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

  1. official, eunuch

Usually translated as

officer, chamberlain, eunuch

Origin

or çâriç; from an unused root meaning to castrate

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Çârîyç occurs 42 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (7), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Esther (12), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (5), Daniel (7)

Strong's Lexicon — C