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Authority

חֵ֫סֶןStrong’s H7983

chesen (che-sen)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chesen is the Hebrew word usually translated “mastery”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?”
Ecclesiastes 8:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. Power, strength, power (of the king), (royal) power
How it's translated
  • mastery 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Ecclesiastes 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חֵ֫סֶן chesen · authority

power, strength, power (of the king), (royal) power Aramaic of shil.ton (שִׁלְטוֹן "authority" H7983)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

AUTHOR'ITY, noun

[Latin auctoritas.]

  1. Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children.
  2. The power derived from opinion, respect or esteem; influence of character or office; credit; as the authority of age or example, which is submitted to or respected, in some measure, as a law, or rule of action.
  3. Testimony; witness; or the person who testifies; as, the Gospels or the evangelists are our authorities for the miracles of Christ.
  4. Weight of testimony; credibility; as a historian of no authority
All definitions
  1. Weight of character; respectability; dignity; as a magistrate of great authority in the city.
  2. Warrant; order; permission.“By what authority dost thou these things” Matthew 21:23
  3. Precedents, decisions of a court, official declarations, respectable opinions and says, also the books that contain them, are call authorities, as they influence the opinions of others; and in law, the decisions of supreme courts have a binding force upon inferior courts, and are called authorities.
  4. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as the local authorities of the states.

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.