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title: שַׁלִּיט — having mastery · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׁלִּיט (7989), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: having mastery. BDB 1906: adj. having mastery, domineering. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׁלִּיט

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«שַׁלִּיט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **having mastery** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 7989 · **BDB:** שַׁלִּיט

### Glosses

ruler (2); having.mastery (1); rulers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

having mastery [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7989/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. having mastery, domineering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7989/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. having mastery, domineering;— having mastery: אֵין אָדָם שׁ׳ בָּרוּחַ Ec 8:8; elsewhere as subst. הַשּׁ׳ the ruler 10:5, so (c. עַל־הָאָרֶץ) Gn 42:6 (prob. late substitution for original word of E); pl. as subst. שַׁלִּיטִים Ec 7:19 (specif. of Alex.’s successors PerlesAnal. 42). domineering, imperious, fs. (Köii 1. 201) אִשָּׁה זוֹנָה שַׁלָּ֑טֶת Ez 16:30 (Jerusalem personified).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׁלִּיט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7989/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.19/)

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הַֽחָכְמָ֖ה תָּעֹ֣ז לֶחָכָ֑ם מֵֽעֲשָׂרָה֙ שַׁלִּיטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָי֖וּ בָּעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* (the) wisdom it.gives.strength to the.wise \[person\] more than.ten rulers who they.are in the city

*JPS 1917:* Wisdom is a stronghold to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

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[Ecclesiastes 10:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.5/)

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יֵ֣שׁ רָעָ֔ה רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ כִּשְׁגָגָ֕ה שֶׁיֹּצָ֖א מִלִּפְנֵ֥י הַשַּׁלִּֽיט׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] an.evil \[which\].I.have.seen under the sun like an.inadvertence which.\[is\] going.forth from before the ruler

*JPS 1917:* There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceedeth from a ruler:

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