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# מִמְשָׁל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4474

**dominion** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dominion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4474/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִמְשָׁל²: dominion, ruler [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4474/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dominion, ruler (late);—abs. מ׳ Dn 11:3, 5; pl. הַמִּמְשָׁלִים 1 Ch 26:6;— מ׳ רב great dominion Dn 11:3 (acc. cogn. c. מָשַׁל), v 5 (pred. of מֶמְשַׁלְתּוֹ). abstr. for concr. (pl.) = rulers 1 Ch 26:6 (? read הַמּשְׁלִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[will be\] a dominion (1); dominion (1); rulers (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.3/#tree)

וְעָמַ֖ד מֶ֣לֶךְ גִּבּ֑וֹר וּמָשַׁל֙ מִמְשָׁ֣ל רַ֔ב וְעָשָׂ֖ה כִּרְצוֹנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.arise a.king mighty and he.will.have.dominion dominion great and he.will.do according to his.pleasure

*JPS 1917:* And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

[1 Chronicles 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.6/#tree)

וְלִֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֤ה בְנוֹ֙ נוֹלַ֣ד בָּנִ֔ים הַמִּמְשָׁלִ֖ים לְבֵ֣ית אֲבִיהֶ֑ם כִּֽי־גִבּ֥וֹרֵי חַ֖יִל הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and to Shemaiah son his it.was.born sons the rulers of the.house their.father their (dm) \[were\].mighty.\[men\] of.ability they

*JPS 1917:* Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4474.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4474/): 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).