# H7980 שָׁלַט

שָׁלַט (shâlaṭ), Strong’s H7980: to dominate, i.e. govern; by implication, to permit KJV: (bear, have) rule, have dominion, give (have) power.. Occurs 8 times.

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*shâlaṭ* — to dominate, i.e. govern; by implication, to permit

KJV: (bear, have) rule, have dominion, give (have) power.

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁלַט vb. domineer, be master of (late)
- Qal domineer, lord it over
- Hiph.
- 1 give power of
- 2 get mastery of

## Where it occurs
- [Psalms 119:133](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/119?v=133) — Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=19) — Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/5?v=18) — Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion…
- [Ecclesiastes 6:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/6?v=2) — a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet…
- [Ecclesiastes 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/8?v=9) — All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man…
- [Esther 9:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/9?v=1) — Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and…
- [Nehemiah 5:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nehemiah/5?v=15) — But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty…