To domineer
שָׁלַטStrong’s H7980shalat (sha-lat)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalat is the Hebrew word usually translated “domineered”, “domineer” and “it have power”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.”
Meaning
- To domineer, exercise power over, dominate, have mastery, be master, lord it over(Qal) to domineer, lord it over, become master · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- they domineered 2
- to domineer 1
- it have power 1
- so he may have power 1
- and he has given power him 1
- he gives power him 1
- he domineers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 4
- Nehemiah 1
- Esther 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 9:1Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
- Psalms 119:133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 5:19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
- Ecclesiastes 8:9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁלַט shalat · to domineer
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 Aramaic equivalent: she.let (שְׁלֵט "to rule" H7981)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “domineer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DOMINEER, verb intransitive
[Latin See Dominant.]
- To rule over with insolence or arbitrary sway.
- To bluster; to hector; to swell with conscious superiority, or haughtiness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.