Strong's #5631: cariyc (pronounced saw-reece')

or caric {saw-reece'}; from an unused root meaning to castrate; a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state:--chamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare 7249.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sârı̂ys / sâris

1) official, eunuch

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to castrate

Usage:

This word is used 42 times:

 

Genesis 37:36: "him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard."
Genesis 39:1: "was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian,"
Genesis 40:2: "was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against"
Genesis 40:7: "And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's"
1 Samuel 8:15: "of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants."
1 Kings 22:9: "of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah"
2 Kings 8:6: "him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all"
2 Kings 9:32: "to him two or three eunuchs."
2 Kings 20:18: "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: "of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned"
2 Kings 24:12: "and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth"
2 Kings 24:15: "mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity"
2 Kings 25:19: "the city he took an officer that was set over"
1 Chronicles 28:1: "of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men,"
2 Chronicles 18:8: "called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son"
Esther 1:10: "Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus"
Esther 1:12: "at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth,"
Esther 1:15: "the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?"
Esther 2:3: "unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification"
Esther 2:14: "the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto"
Esther 2:15: "but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women,"
Esther 2:21: "gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept"
Esther 4:4: "So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved;"
Esther 4:5: "Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon"
Esther 6:2: "and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who"
Esther 6:14: "with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman"
Esther 7:9: "And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold"
Isaiah 39:7: "thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
Isaiah 56:3: "hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold,"
Isaiah 56:4: "thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths,"
Jeremiah 29:2: "Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters,"
Jeremiah 34:19: "of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land,"
Jeremiah 38:7: "Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard"
Jeremiah 41:16: "men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:"
Jeremiah 52:25: "also out of the city a eunuch, which had the charge of"
Daniel 1:3: "spoke unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel,"
Daniel 1:7: "Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah,"
Daniel 1:8: "nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not"
Daniel 1:9: "and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs."
Daniel 1:10: "And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord"
Daniel 1:11: "Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah,"
Daniel 1:18: "the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar."