UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: nsm

Sense 1: eunuch

Semantic domains: Officials (001001002003007)

Definition: = a male who has been castrated and made to serve in the women's quarters in the royal palace

Forms: nsm

Show passage in OET: KI2 9:32

32 Yehu looked up at the window and called out, “Who is with me? Who?” And two or three servants poked their heads out windows and looked down to him.

OET-LV KI2 9:32

32 And_he _lifted _up face _of_his to the_window and_he/it _said who is_with_me who and_they _looked _down to_him/it two three court-officials.

Show passage in OET: KI2 20:18

OET-RV KI2 20:18

18 What’s more, some of your own biological descendants will be taken and they’ll be castrated to become servants of the Babylonian king.”

OET-LV KI2 20:18

18 And_some_of_your _descendants who they _will _come _forth from_you whom you _will _father people _will _take and_they _will _be eunuchs in_(the)_palace of _the _king _of of _Bāⱱel.

Jump to OET KI2 9:32 section.

Jump to OET KI2 20:18 section.

All 18 recorded passages for this sense

KI2: OET KI2 9:32 · OET KI2 20:18

EST: OET EST 1:10 · OET EST 1:12 · OET EST 1:15 · OET EST 2:3 · OET EST 2:14–15 · OET EST 2:21 · OET EST 4:4–5 · OET EST 6:2 · OET EST 6:14 · OET EST 7:9

ISA: OET ISA 39:7 · OET ISA 56:3–4

JER: OET JER 38:7

Sense 2: official

Semantic domains: Officials (001001002003007)

Definition: = a high-ranking and trusted officer of the king who serves in the royal palace

Forms: nsm

Show passage in OET: GEN 37:36

OET-RV GEN 37:36

36 Meanwhile, the Midyanites arrived in Mitsrayim (Egypt) and sold him to Potifar—Par’oh’s (Pharaoh) captain of the guards.

OET-LV GEN 37:36

36 And_the_Midyānites they _sold DOM_him/it into Miʦrayim/(Egypt) to_Pōţīfar an _official _of Parˊoh the _commander _of the _bodyguards.

Show passage in OET: GEN 39:1

OET-RV GEN 39:1

39 Meanwhile, Yosef (Joseph) had been taken down to Mitsrayim (Egypt), and an Mitsri (Egyptian) man named Potifar had bought him from the Yishmaelim (Ishmaelites) who had taken him down there. Potifar was the chief of the guards for Par’oh (Pharaoh).

OET-LV GEN 39:1

39 And_Yōşēf/(Joseph) he _had _been _brought _down towards_Miʦrayim/(Egypt) and_he_bought _him Pōţīfar the _official _of Parˊoh the _commander _of the _bodyguards a _man an _from _Miʦrayim/(Miʦrayim) from_the _hand _of the _Yishmāˊ^ʼēlī who they_had _brought _him _down to_(to).

Jump to OET GEN 37:36 section.

Jump to OET GEN 39:1 section.

All 27 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 37:36 · OET GEN 39:1 · OET GEN 40:2 · OET GEN 40:7

SA1: OET SA1 8:15

KI1: OET KI1 22:9

KI2: OET KI2 8:6 · OET KI2 18:17 · OET KI2 23:11 · OET KI2 24:12 · OET KI2 24:15 · OET KI2 25:19

CH1: OET CH1 28:1

CH2: OET CH2 18:8

JER: OET JER 29:2 · OET JER 34:19 · OET JER 39:3 · OET JER 39:13 · OET JER 41:16 · OET JER 52:25

DAN: OET DAN 1:3 · OET DAN 1:7–11 · OET DAN 1:18

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

סָרִיס

Form 1

Sense 1: eunuch

Sense 2: official