שַׁלִּיט H7989
- Home gloss
- potentate
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- governor
- Note
- One who holds power (שָׁלַט "have mastery"): Joseph over the land (42:6); Eccl 7:19; 8:8. "Rule" is מָשַׁל's and "governor" is left for פֶּחָה
- Rulings
- 2, 33
Occurrences (1)
Genesis 42
- 42:6 And Joseph—he was the potentate over the land; he was the seller of rations to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and prostrated themselves to him, nostrils to the land.