shalat · dominate, rule

What it means

shalat (שָׁלַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dominate, rule”.

To dominate, to have power over another.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To hold sway over something or someone; God letting one enjoy something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rule ×3
• dominated ×1
• give him power ×1
• has given him power ×1
• ruled ×1
• rules ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×2
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×4

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me burdened the people and took from them for bread and wine, besides, forty shekels of silver; even their young men dominated the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.

• Esther 9:1

  And in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of it, when the word of the king and his law came to be carried out, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to rule over them, it was turned around, so that the Jews themselves ruled over those who hated them.

• Psalms 119:133

  My steps make firm in your saying, and do not let any wickedness rule over me.

• Ecclesiastes 2:19

  And who knows whether he will be wise or witless? Yet he will rule over all my toil at which I have toiled and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vapor.

• Ecclesiastes 5:19

  Also, every human being to whom Elohim has given riches and possessions and has given him power to eat from them and to take his portion and to rejoice in his toil — this is the gift of Elohim.

• Ecclesiastes 6:2

  a man to whom Elohim gives riches and possessions and honor, and he is not lacking for his soul anything of all that he desires; but Elohim does not give him power to eat from it, for a foreigner eats it. This is vapor and a bad sickness.

• Ecclesiastes 8:9

  All this I saw, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun, a time in which the human being rules over a human being to his harm.

And 1 more times.