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Words
סָרִיס H5631
- Home gloss
- eunuch
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- officer / officer
- Note
- The castrated court servant (Isa 56:3–4; 2 Kgs 20:18; Dan 1:3) and a court title. See the note at 37:36
- Rulings
- 1
Occurrences (4)
- 37:36 And the Medanites sold him to Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, officer of the butchers.
- 39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, eunuch of Pharaoh, officer of the butchers, an Egyptian man, acquired him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
- 40:2 And Pharaoh was wrathful against his two eunuchs, against the officer of the cupbearers and against the officer of the bakers.
- 40:7 And he asked the eunuchs of Pharaoh who were with him in custody in the house of his lord, saying, "Why are your faces bad this day?"