sa.ris denotes a person belonging to royal service, often shown carrying out palace, guard, or household duties.

The occurrences consistently place the term among royal personnel: persons summoned by kings, entrusted with palace households or guards, listed with court officials, or identified in royal captivity and administration. The supplied verses also apply it to individuals and groups explicitly presented by the APB as eunuchs, including those serving before a king or supervising women.

1. Royal personnel in palace service · dominant

   The noun identifies people attached to royal administration and households. In 1 Kings 22:9 the king summons one person to bring Micaiah; in Esther 2:3 one is in charge of the women; and in Esther 2:21 two guard the threshold. In Daniel 1:3, the construct plural occurs in the command to the chief of this group to bring selected Israelites before the king.

   1 Kings 22:9Daniel 1:3Esther 1:10Esther 2:3Esther 2:212 Kings 24:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents these personnel as “eunuchs,” especially in palace and royal-service settings. In several other clauses it uses “official,” “officer,” or “court official”; Those variations should be read as presentations of the verse's setting rather than fixed translations of the term.