שִׁלְטוֹןshilṭôwn

mastery (Ecclesiastes 8:4; Ecclesiastes 8:8)

Pronunciation: shil-tone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7983

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:4 His command is backed by great power. No one can resist or question it.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:8 None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue the wicked.

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).