סריס
Hebrew edit
| Root |
|---|
| ס־ר־ס (s-r-s) |
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /saˈʁis/
Noun edit
סָרִיס • (sarís) m (plural indefinite סריסים)
- A eunuch.
Further reading edit
- 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