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Strong's #7980: shalat (pronounced shaw-lat')

a primitive root; to dominate, i.e. govern; by implication, to permit:--(bear, have) rule, have dominion, give (have) power.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâlaṭ

1) to domineer, exercise power over, dominate, have mastery, be master, lord it over

1a) (Qal) to domineer, lord it over, become master

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to give power of

1b2) to get mastery of

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Nehemiah 5:15: "of silver; yea, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did"
Esther 9:1: "in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary,"
Esther 9:1: "to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated"
Psalms 119:133: "and let not any iniquity have dominion"
Ecclesiastes 2:19: "a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored,"
Ecclesiastes 5:19: "hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take"
Ecclesiastes 6:2: "of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof,"
Ecclesiastes 8:9: "there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt."









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