עֶצֶר
ʻetser · H6114 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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rule
Action by which humans provide leadership for a group of people
ExamplesJudges 18:7 So the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people who were in it living in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting; for there was no oppressive ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- נָגִיד nâgîyd · H5057 · ruler, chief, leader
- נָגִיד denotes an appointed leader or official with administrative authority, conceptually close to the magistrate sense of עֶצֶר.
- שַׂר sar · H8269 · commander, chief, captain
- שַׂר is a general term for an official, leader, or magistrate exercising authority, broadly synonymous with the magistrate sense of עֶצֶר.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄρχων árchōn · G758 · ruler, governor, official
- Greek ἄρχων is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting magistrate, ruler, or official. It captures the administrative/judicial authority conveyed by עֶצֶר in its single biblical occurrence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Control002003002007
- עֶצֶר denotes a magistrate or ruler, one who exercises authority and restraint over others.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6114. etser עֶ֫צֶר noun [masculine] restraint (?), only ע ׳יוֺרֵשׁ Jdg 18:7 a possessor…
עֶ֫צֶר noun [masculine] restraint (?), only ע ׳יוֺרֵשׁ Jdg 18:7 a possessor of restraint, i.e. ruler, but ᵑ9 ᵐ5 wealth, so Thes and others, text very dubious, compare GFM Bu conjecture that ׳ע combines readings אֹצָר and עשֶׁר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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