שַׁלִּיט
shallîyṭ · H7989 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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master, ruler, governor, captain
A person in a position of high authority
ExamplesGenesis 42:6 Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom strengthens a wise person more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Ecclesiastes 10:5 There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a mistake that proceeds from the ruler:
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- עֶשֶׂרten 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 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 1 word
- אָצִיל ʼâtsîyl · H678 · farthest corner, leader
- Both denote persons in positions of leadership, authority, social or political power.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Leaders001001003005
- The noun for a ruler or governor, directly shown in Joseph as "the ruler over the land" of Egypt (Genesis 42:6), the comparison of wisdom's strength to "ten rulers... in a city" (Ecclesiastes 7:19), and the evil that "proceeds from the ruler" (Ecclesiastes 10:5).
- Right002001003013
- The rightful, legitimate authority implied in rule, reflected in the observation that "no one has authority over the wind" or over death itself (Ecclesiastes 8:8), a limit on even a ruler's rightful power.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7989. shallit שַׁלִּיט adjective having mastery, domineering; — 1 having mastery: שׁ…
שַׁלִּיט adjective having mastery, domineering; —
1 having mastery: שׁ אָדָם ׳אֵין בָּרוּחַ Ecc 8:8; elsewhere as substantive ׳הַשּׁ the ruler Ecc 10:5, so (with עַלהָֿאָרֶץ) Gen 42:6 (probably late substitution for original word of E); plural as substantive שַׁלִּיטִים Ecc 7:19 (specifically of Alexander's successors PerlesAnal. 42).
2 domineering, imperious, feminine singular (Kö ii. 10. 201) שַׁלָּ֑טֶת זוֺנָה אִשָּׁה Eze 16:30 (Jerusalem personified).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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