Domineering
שַׁלִּיטStrong’s H7989shallit (shal-lit)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shallit is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruler”, “rulers” and “having mastery”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.”
Meaning
- Having mastery, domineering, masterhaving mastery · domineering, imperious
How it's translated
- the ruler 2
- rulers 1
- having mastery 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
- Genesis 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 7:19Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
- Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁלִּיט shallit · domineering
1) having mastery, domineering, master 1a) having mastery 1a1) ruler (subst) 1b) domineering, imperious Aramaic equivalent: shal.lit (שַׁלִּיט "ruling" H7990)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “domineering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DOMINEERING, participle present
tense
- Ruling over with insolence; blustering; manifesting haughty superiority.
- adjective Overbearing.
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.