saris · official, eunuch

What it means

saris (סָרִיס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “official, eunuch”.

Court official. The word can also mean eunuch.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A servant at the king's court; sometimes a castrated man.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• officials ×19
• eunuchs ×10
• official ×7
• eunuch ×4
• officer ×2

Where it appears

• 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

• Genesis 37:36

  Meanwhile the Medanites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

• Genesis 40:2

  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers,

• Genesis 40:7

  He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in custody in his lord’s house, saying, “Why are your faces sad today?”

• 1 Samuel 8:15

  Of your grain and your vineyards he will take a tenth and give it to his officials and to his servants.

• 1 Kings 22:9

  The king of Israel called to an officer and said, “Quickly, bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

• 2 Kings 8:6

  The king asked the woman, and she told him. The king gave her an official, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day she left the land until now.”

• 2 Kings 9:32

  He lifted his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials looked down at him.

• 2 Kings 20:18

  And some of your sons who will come out from you, whom you will father, they will take; and they will be officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

• 2 Kings 23:11

  He put an end to the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of YHWH, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the Parvarim; and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.

• 2 Kings 24:12

  Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his officials; and the king of Babylon took him in year eight of his reign.

• 2 Kings 24:15

  He carried into exile Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his officials, and the mighty of the land; he led them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

• 2 Kings 25:19

  and from the city he took an official who was in charge of the men of war, and five men of those who saw the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief 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.

• 1 Chronicles 28:1

  David assembled at Jerusalem all the chiefs of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions who ministered to the king, and the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and the chiefs over all the property and livestock of the king and of his sons, with the officials and the mighty men and every mighty man of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 18:8

  The king of Israel called to an officer and said, “Quickly, bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he told Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

• Esther 1:12

  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that came by the hand of the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his fury burned within him.

• Esther 1:15

  “According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she has not done the command of King Ahasuerus sent by the hand of the eunuchs?”

• Esther 2:3

  and let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every young woman, a virgin of good appearance, to Susa, the fortress, to the house of the women, under the hand of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given;

• Esther 2:14

  In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second house of the women, under the hand of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the concubines; she would not go in again to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.

• Esther 2:15

  And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not seek anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, said. And Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

• Esther 2:21

  In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the gate of the king, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, of the keepers of the threshold, became angry and sought to stretch out their hand against King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 4:4

  And Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and made it known to her, and the queen was greatly shaken; and she sent clothes to clothe Mordecai, and to remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.

• Esther 4:5

  And Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had set before her, and she gave him orders concerning Mordecai, to learn what this was and why this was.

• Esther 6:2

  And it was found written that Mordecai had made known about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, of the keepers of the threshold, who had sought to stretch out their hand against King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 6:14

  They were still speaking with him when the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had made.

• Esther 7:9

  And Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, “Also, look, the pole that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke well for the king, is standing at the house of Haman, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

• Isaiah 39:7

  And some of your sons who will come out from you, whom you will father, they will take; and they will be officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

• Isaiah 56:3

  And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH say, “YHWH will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

• Isaiah 56:4

  For thus says YHWH to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose what pleases me, and hold fast to my covenant:

• Jeremiah 29:2

  after Jeconiah the king had gone out, and the lady, and the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem,

• Jeremiah 34:19

  the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the court officials and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the halves of the calf;

• Jeremiah 38:7

  And Ebed-melech the Cushite, a man, a court official, and he was in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern —now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin—

• Jeremiah 41:16

  Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the chiefs of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had brought back from Ishmael son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam: men, men of war, and women and little ones and court officials, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

• Jeremiah 52:25

  and from the city he took an official who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men of those who saw the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief 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.

• Daniel 1:3

  And the king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring some of the sons of Israel, both of the royal offspring and of the nobles,

• Daniel 1:7

  And the chief of the officials gave them names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar, and Hananiah Shadrach, and Mishael Meshach, and Azariah Abednego.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel set it in his heart that he would not defile himself with the delicacies of the king or with the wine he drank; and he asked the chief of the officials that he might not defile himself.

• Daniel 1:9

  And Elohim gave Daniel loyal love and compassion before the chief of the officials.

• Daniel 1:10

  And the chief of the officials said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces more downcast than the youths who are your age? Then you would make my head guilty to the king.”

And 2 more times.