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# שִׁלְטוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7983

**mastery** — used 2 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

mastery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7983/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁלְטוֹן: mastery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7983/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mastery (LagBN 199);—Ec 8:4, 8 (c. בְּ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.4/#tree)

בַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דְּבַר־מֶ֖לֶךְ שִׁלְט֑וֹן וּמִ֥י יֹֽאמַר־ל֖וֹ מַֽה־תַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* because a.word of.a.king \[is\].mastery and who? will.he.say to him what? are.you.doing

*JPS 1917:* Forasmuch as the king's word hath power; and who may say unto him: 'What doest thou?'

[Ecclesiastes 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.8/#tree)

אֵ֣ין אָדָ֞ם שַׁלִּ֤יט בָּר֙וּחַ֙ לִכְל֣וֹא אֶת־הָר֔וּחַ וְאֵ֤ין שִׁלְטוֹן֙ בְּי֣וֹם הַמָּ֔וֶת וְאֵ֥ין מִשְׁלַ֖חַת בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וְלֹֽא־יְמַלֵּ֥ט רֶ֖שַׁע אֶת־בְּעָלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not anyone having.mastery over the wind to restrain (et) the wind and there.\[is\].not mastery over the.day of.(the) death and there.\[is\].not discharge in the battle and not it.will.rescue wickedness (et) owners its

*JPS 1917:* There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7983/): 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).