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# סָרֵךְ

Biblical Aramaic

**chief** — used 5 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

chief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b5_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָרַךְ: n.m. chief, overseer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b5_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. chief, overseer (𝔗 id. (= BH שֹׁטֵר); etym. dub.; prob. with Bev Dn Dr Dn AndrM 75\*, loan-word from. Pers. sār (and \*sarak?), head, chief);—pl. abs. סָֽרְכִין Dn 6:3, emph. סָֽרְכַיָּא v 4, 5, 7, cstr. סָֽרְכֵי v 8.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); overseers (1); the overseers (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.7/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן סָרְכַיָּ֤א וַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּא֙ אִלֵּ֔ן הַרְגִּ֖שׁוּ עַל־מַלְכָּ֑א וְכֵן֙ אָמְרִ֣ין לֵ֔הּ דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א לְעָלְמִ֥ין חֱיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* then the overseers and the satraps these they.came.as.a.crowd to the king and as.follows \[they.were\].saying to him O.Darius the king forever live!

*JPS 1917:* Then these presidents and satraps came tumultuously to the king, and said thus unto him: 'King Darius, live for ever!

[Daniel 6:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.3/#tree)

וְעֵ֤לָּא מִנְּהוֹן֙ סָרְכִ֣ין תְּלָתָ֔א דִּ֥י דָנִיֵּ֖אל חַֽד־מִנְּה֑וֹן דִּֽי־לֶהֱוֺ֞ן אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֗ין יָהֲבִ֤ין לְהוֹן֙ טַעְמָ֔א וּמַלְכָּ֖א לָֽא־לֶהֱוֵ֥א נָזִֽק׃

*Word for word:* and above more than.them overseers three whom Daniel \[was\].one of them whom they.will.be the satraps these giving to them the report and the king not he.will.be suffering.injury

*JPS 1917:* and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b5_5da_5b0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b5_5da_5b0/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).