שַׁלִּיטshallîyṭ

having mastery, domineering

Pronunciation: shal-leet' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7989

Meanings

1. having mastery (Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 10:5; Genesis 42:6)

2. domineering, imperious (Ezekiel 16:30)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 42:6 Since Joseph was governor of all Egypt and in charge of selling grain to all the people, it was to him that his brothers came. When they arrived, they bowed before him with their faces to the ground.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:19 One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of a town!
  • 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.
  • Ecclesiastes 10:5 There is another evil I have seen under the sun. Kings and rulers make a grave mistake

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).