שַׁלִּיט
shalit · ruler
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7989 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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shalit (שַׁלִּיט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ruler”.
Governor, one in command; mighty.
How to say it
sha·lit
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
- One in command.
- Authority over something.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- governor ×1
- power ×1
- ruler ×1
- rulers ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 42:6
Joseph was the governor over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
- Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom makes strong the wise man more than ten rulers who are in the city.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no human being with power over the breath to retain the breath, nor is there power over the day of death, nor is there discharge in war, nor will wickedness deliver its owners.
- Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error that goes out from before the ruler: