שָׁלַט
sha.lat
to domineer
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word שָׁלַט (sha.lat) is defined as "to domineer". This action involves exerting control or mastery over someone or something. The 8 occurrences of this word in the Bible demonstrate its relatively limited, yet impactful usage. The verb form suggests a focus on the exercise of power, rather than its origin or inherent quality. This implies that domination is seen as a specific action, rather than a permanent state or inherent trait. The meaning of שָׁלַט conveys a sense of mastery and rule, which is typically exerted over weaker or more subordinate entities.
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Occurrences in Scripture
8 total occurrences across the text
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
Esther 9:1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
Esther 9:1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
Psalms 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 6:2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.