רָדָהrâdâh

רָדָה: have dominion, rule, dominate

Pronunciation: raw-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7287

Meanings

Qal: have dominion, rule (Isaiah 14:2; Leviticus 26:17; Ezekiel 34:4)

Hiph`il: causeth, to dominate, but apocopatic form strange, read יָרֹד (√ רדד q. v.) (Isaiah 41:2)

רָדָה: scrape out

Qal: he scraped the honey, he scraped it out into his palms (Judges 14:9; Jeremiah 5:31)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 26 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
  • Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
  • Leviticus 25:43 Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.
  • Leviticus 25:46 passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.
  • Leviticus 25:53 The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly.
  • Leviticus 26:17 I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).