shelet (to rule) · Rightly

Meaning

To have power, rule, domineer, rule over(P'al) have power upon or over, rule, fall upon, assault, be ruler · (Aphel) make ruler

How it's translated

and he has made ruler you 1
it will rule 1
and he made ruler him 1
it had had power 1
he will rule 1
you will rule 1
they assaulted 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 7

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 2:39In contextAnd after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
Daniel 2:48In contextThen the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
Daniel 5:7In contextThe king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:16In contextAnd I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 6:24In contextAnd the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

Aramaic dictionary

שְׁלֵט shelet · to rule

1) to have power, rule, domineer, rule over 1a) (P'al) have power upon or over, rule, fall upon, assault, be ruler 1b) (Aphel) make ruler

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “rule” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RULE, noun

[Latin regula, from rego, to govern, that is, to stretch, strain or make straight.]

Government; sway; empire; control; supreme command or authority.“A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame” Proverbs 17:2
That which is established as a principle, standard or directory; that by which any thing is to be adjusted or regulated, or to which it is to be conformed; that which is settled by authority or custom for guidance and direction.
An instrument by which lines are drawn.
Established mode or course of proceeding prescribed in private life.

All definitions and other forms of “rule”

In literature, a maxim, canon or precept to be observed in any art or science.
In monasteries, corporations or societies, a law or regulation to be observed by the society and its particular members.
In courts, rules are the determinations and orders of court, to be observed by its officers in conducting the business of the court.
In arithmetic and algebra, a determinate mode prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
In grammar, an establish form of construction in a particular class of words; or the expression of that form in words.

RULE, verb transitive

To govern; to control the will and actions of others, either by arbitrary power and authority, or by established laws.“If a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?” 1 Timothy 3:5
To govern the movements of things; to conduct; to manage; to control.
To manage; to conduct, in almost any manner.
To settle as by a rule
To mark with lines by a ruler; as, to rule a blank book.
To establish by decree or decision; to determine; as a court.

RULE, verb intransitive

To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority.

“By me princes rule” Proverbs 8:16“They shall rule over their oppressors” Isaiah 14:2

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.