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Strong's H5631 סָרִיס (caric)

Caric means “eunuch” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H5631
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 42
Books 10

Strong's H5631 Quick Answer

Strong's H5631 סָרִיס סָרִס (cariyc) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cariyc (saw-reece') (or caric {saw-reece'}) n-m. 1. a eunuch 2. (by implication) valet (especially over the female apartments) It has 42 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include eunuchs, over, and eunuch. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
cariyc (saw-reece') (or caric {saw-reece'}) n-m. 1. a eunuch 2. (by implication) valet (especially over the female apartments)
Usage
42 linked usages
Books
10 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
eunuchs, over, and eunuch

Meaning and Definition

cariyc (saw-reece') (or caric {saw-reece'}) n-m. 1. a eunuch 2. (by implication) valet (especially over the female apartments) 3. (hence) a minister of state [from an unused root meaning to castrate] KJV: chamberlain, eunuch, officer. Compare: H7249

Original Word
סָרִיס סָרִס
Transliteration
cariyc
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5631. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H5631 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cariyc, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

eunuchs 2 Kings 9:32 15× eunuch Isaiah 56:3 over 2 Kings 25:19

How Strong's H5631 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 42 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5631 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5631 in the Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 37:36 KJV

And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

Genesis 39:1 KJV

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

Genesis 40:2 KJV

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Usage Excerpts

First 42 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5631.

Genesis 37:36 Old Testament, KJV
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
Genesis 39:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis 40:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis 40:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
1 Samuel 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Kings 22:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
2 Kings 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
2 Kings 9:32 Old Testament, KJV
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings 20:18 Old Testament, KJV
And of thy sons that shall issue from 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 Old Testament, KJV
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2 Kings 24:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:19 Old Testament, KJV
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
1 Chronicles 28:1 Old Testament, KJV
And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 18:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
Esther 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Esther 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther 1:15 Old Testament, KJV
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Esther 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
Esther 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Esther 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
Esther 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
Esther 6:2 Old Testament, KJV
And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Esther 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
Isaiah 39:7 Old Testament, KJV
And of thy sons that shall issue from 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 Old Testament, KJV
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah 56:4 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Jeremiah 29:2 Old Testament, KJV
(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
Jeremiah 34:19 Old Testament, KJV
The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Jeremiah 38:7 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah 41:16 Old Testament, KJV
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
Jeremiah 52:25 Old Testament, KJV
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
Daniel 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
Daniel 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.
Daniel 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
Daniel 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
Daniel 1:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Daniel 1:18 Old Testament, KJV
Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5631, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 7 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 12 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 7 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H5631 FAQ

What does caric (סָרִיס) mean?

Caric (Strong's H5631) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "eunuch". cariyc (saw-reece') (or caric {saw-reece'}) n-m. 1. a eunuch 2. (by implication) valet (especially over the female apartments)

How many times is caric (סָרִיס) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 42 linked usages for Strong's H5631 across 10 books.

Where can I study caric (סָרִיס) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5631 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate caric (סָרִיס)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as eunuchs, over, and eunuch. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.