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Thoughts And Things Of The Bible -- Chamberlain
A chamberlain was a confidential servant of the king (Gen. 37:36;
39:1) who formerly had charge of the private apartments or chambers of
the palace. He kept the accounts of the public revenues. It was a post
of honor which involved great intimacy and influence with the king.
In Rom. 16:23 mention is made of "Erastus the chamberlain."
Here the word denotes the treasurer of the city, or the quaestor, as the
Romans styled him. He is almost the only convert from the higher ranks
of whom mention is made (comp. Acts 17:34). Blastus, Herod's
"chamberlain" (Acts 12:20), was his personal attendant or
valet-de-chambre. The Hebrew word saris , thus translated in Esther
1:10, 15; 2:3, 14, 21, etc., properly means an eunuch (as in the marg.),
as it is rendered in Isa. 39:7; 56:3.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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