H5632 H5632
chief, high commissioner; a senior administrative official (Aramaic loanword from Persian)
Borrowed from Persian (sar, 'head, chief'), this Aramaic term designates a high-ranking government commissioner or prefect. All five occurrences cluster in Daniel 6, where three sarekhin are appointed over the 120 satraps of the Medo-Persian empire. Daniel himself is elevated among them, provoking the jealousy that leads to the lion's den episode.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A high-ranking imperial commissioner or prefect set over provincial governors — exclusively in Daniel 6:2-7, where Darius appoints three such officials to oversee the satraps. Spanish 'gobernadores' and French 'préfet' both capture the administrative authority of the role. The term is a Persian loanword reflecting the bureaucratic vocabulary that entered Aramaic during the Achaemenid period. 5×
AR["الرُّؤَسَاءُ", "الرُّؤَسَاءِ", "رُؤَسَاءُ", "رُؤَسَاءِ"]·ben["প্রধানদের", "প্রধানরা"]·DE["[סרכי]", "[סרכיא]", "[סרכין]"]·EN["commissioners", "commissioners-of", "the-commissioners"]·FR["préfet"]·heb["ה-שרים", "שרי", "שרים"]·HI["अध्यक्ष", "अध्यक्षों", "अध्यक्षों-ने"]·ID["-pejabat-pejabat-tinggi", "pejabat-pejabat-tinggi"]·IT["funzionari", "funzionario"]·jav["pangageng", "para-pangageng"]·KO["대신들", "대신들-과", "대신들-을", "대신들-이"]·PT["os-presidentes", "os-presidentes-do", "presidentes"]·RU["начальниками", "начальники", "начальников"]·ES["gobernadores", "los-gobernadores", "los-gobernadores-de"]·SW["wakuu", "wakuu-wa"]·TR["başkanlar", "başkanları", "başkanların"]·urd["وزیر", "وزیروں", "وزیروں-نے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [סָרַךְ] 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.