Original Word: סָרְכִין Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: sarak Phonetic Spelling: (saw-rake') Short Definition: commissioners
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[] ( id. (=Biblical Hebrew ); etymology dubious; probably with BevDn DrDn AndrM 75*, loan-word from Persian s¹r (and * sarak ?), head, chief); — plural absolute Daniel 6:3, emphatic Daniel 6:4; Daniel 6:5; Daniel 6:7, construct Daniel 6:8.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
president
(Aramaic) of foreign origin; an emir -- president.
Daniel 6:2 HEB:וְעֵ֤לָּא מִנְּהוֹן֙ סָרְכִ֣ין תְּלָתָ֔א דִּ֥י NAS: them three commissioners (of whom KJV: these three presidents; of whom Daniel INT: and over these commissioners three whom
Daniel 6:3 HEB:מִתְנַצַּ֔ח עַל־ סָרְכַיָּ֖א וַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֑א כָּל־ NAS: himself among the commissioners and satraps KJV: above the presidents and princes, INT: distinguishing among the commissioners and satraps the entire
Daniel 6:4 HEB: אֱדַ֨יִן סָֽרְכַיָּ֜א וַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֗א הֲו֨וֹ NAS: Then the commissioners and satraps KJV: Then the presidents and princes sought INT: Then the commissioners and satraps began
Daniel 6:6 HEB: אֱ֠דַיִן סָרְכַיָּ֤א וַאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּא֙ אִלֵּ֔ן NAS: these commissioners and satraps KJV: these presidents and princes INT: Then commissioners and satraps these
Daniel 6:7 HEB:אִתְיָעַ֜טוּ כֹּ֣ל ׀ סָרְכֵ֣י מַלְכוּתָ֗א סִגְנַיָּ֤א NAS: All the commissioners of the kingdom, KJV: All the presidents of the kingdom, INT: have consulted All the commissioners of the kingdom the prefects