סריס

Hebrew

Root
ס־ר־ס (s-r-s)

Etymology

Borrowed from Akkadian ša rēši (literally “who is at the head”), cognate to זֶה + רֹאשׁ. The root ס־ר־ס (s-r-s) is denominative.

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /saˈʁis/

Noun

סָרִיס • (sarís) m (plural indefinite סריסים)

1. A eunuch.

Further reading

• H5631 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “סָרִיס”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 459a
• A. Murtonen (1989) “SRS”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 307
• “סריס” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language