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# שָׁלַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7980

**domineer** — used 8 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

domineer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7980/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלַט: vb. domineer, be master of (late) Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7980/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. domineer, be master of (late) (NH id.; Assyrian šalâṭu, have power; Arabic سَلُطَ overcome, prevail; سَلِيطٌ strong, hard, سُلْطَانٌ dominion, also ruler, sultan; Ethiopic ሠለጠ: Aramaic שְׁלַט, ܫܠܰܛ (especially der. spec.), Nab. שלט, שלטון);— Pf. 3 ms. שׁ׳ Ec 8:9, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁלַט Ec 2:19, etc.; Inf. cstr. שְׁלוֹט Est 9:1;—domineer, lord it over, עַל pers., Ne 5:15; ב pers. Ec 8:9 (לְרַע לוֹ); ב rei 2:19; become master of, ב pers. Est 9:1(×2). give power of: Pf. 3 ms. sf. pers. וְהִשְׁלִיטוֹ לֶאֱכֹל Ec 5:18, so Impf. 3 ms. sf. יַשְׁלִיטֶנּוּ 6:2 (both subj. God). = Qal, get mastery of: juss. 3 fs. אַל־תַּשְׁלֶט־בִּי כָּל־אָ֑וֶן ψ 119:133.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (2); gain power (1); he has power (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:133](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.133/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.133/#tree)

פְּ֭עָמַי הָכֵ֣ן בְּאִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ וְֽאַל־תַּשְׁלֶט־בִּ֥י כָל־אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* footsteps my direct by word your and not let.it.gain.power over me any wickedness

*JPS 1917:* Order my footsteps by Thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

[Ecclesiastes 2:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.19/#tree)

וּמִ֣י יוֹדֵ֗עַ הֶֽחָכָ֤ם יִהְיֶה֙ א֣וֹ סָכָ֔ל וְיִשְׁלַט֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי וְשֶׁחָכַ֖מְתִּי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃

*Word for word:* and who? \[is\].knowing a wise.\[person\]? will.he.be or? a.fool and he.will.have.power over all toil my which I.have.toiled and which I.have.been.wise under the sun also this \[is\].futility

*JPS 1917:* And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7980.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7980/): 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).