מֶמְשָׁלָה
dominion
also: rule, realm fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 12 times (80%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4475 appears — 14 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 5 verses
- Psalms 103:22 מֶמְשַׁלְתּ֑/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, In all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul.
- Psalms 114:2 מַמְשְׁלוֹתָֽי/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
- Psalms 136:8 לְ/מֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת prep + n c bs cs The sun to rule by day; For his loving kindness endures forever;
- Psalms 136:9 לְ/מֶמְשְׁל֣וֹת prep + n c bp The moon and stars to rule by night; For his loving kindness endures forever:
- Psalms 145:13 וּ֝/מֶֽמְשֶׁלְתְּ/ךָ֗ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 22:21 וּ/מֶֽמְשֶׁלְתְּ/ךָ֖ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
- Isaiah 39:2 מֶמְשַׁלְתּֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 34:1 מֶמְשֶׁ֨לֶת n c bs cs The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
- Jeremiah 51:28 מֶמְשַׁלְתּֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion.
Daniel 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun ממשלה centers on the idea of “dominion.” Lexicons map it across 4 senses — beyond “dominion” it also covers “rule” and “realm”. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. Psalms dominates its distribution — 5 of 14 verses. First canonically at Genesis 1:16, it enters the text early. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4475 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 43%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Dominion 8×, Rule 4×, All his dominion 2×
- American Standard Version: Dominion 5×, Rule 4×, All his dominion 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dominion 8×, Rule 3×, Authority 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dominion 7×, Realm 2×, Rule 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4475 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4475 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4475 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4475 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- rule, dominion, realm
- rule, dominion, realm, domain
- rule
- rule, dominion (of God)
Word origin
Derived from ממשל (mimshâl) (H4474) — ruler.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִמְשָׁל
- parable, v. מָשָׁל.
מֶמְשָׁלָה
- rulership, power. Koh. R. to X, 4 כי באתה לך מ׳ וכ׳ if rulership happens to be thine, leave not thy humility.—Gen. R. s. 53 נטלה … חמ׳ that rulership was taken from them; a. e.—[Gen. R. s. 20, read: מְמַשְּׁלָהּ, v. מָשַׁל.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H4475 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֶמְשַׁלְתּֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Daniel 11:5 | 4 |
| לְ/מֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Genesis 1:16 | 3 |
| הַ/מֶּמְשָׁלָה֙ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Micah 4:8 | 1 |
| וּ/מֶֽמְשֶׁלְתְּ/ךָ֖ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 22:21 | 1 |
| וּ֝/מֶֽמְשֶׁלְתְּ/ךָ֗ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Psalms 145:13 | 1 |
| לְ/מֶמְשְׁל֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 136:9 | 1 |
| מֶמְשֶׁ֨לֶת | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 34:1 | 1 |
| מֶמְשַׁלְתּ֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Psalms 103:22 | 1 |
| מֶמְשַׁלְתּ֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 32:9 | 1 |
| מַמְשְׁלוֹתָֽי/ו | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Psalms 114:2 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
