מְרַאֲשָׁוֹת
dominion
‘dominion’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4763 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 5 distinct verses. 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.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 19:13 מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.
- 1 Samuel 19:16 מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽי/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
- 1 Samuel 26:7 מראשת/ו מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֑י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:11 מראשת/ו מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֛י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.
- 1 Samuel 26:16 מראשת/ו מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽי/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.
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.
“dominion” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word מראשה (mᵉraʼăshâh). It clusters heavily in 1 Samuel, which alone accounts for 63% of its uses. With 8 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 28:11. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4763 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 75%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 25%
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: Hair for his bolster 2×, Pillows 2×
- American Standard Version: Under his head 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Head 5×, Under his head 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Head 3×, Under his head 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4763 across 8 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4763 across 7 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 H4763 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 H4763 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 2 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.
- place at the head, dominion, head place (noun feminine)
- at head place (adverb)
Word origin
Derived from מראשה (marʼâshâh) (H4761) — dominion.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H4763 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מראשת/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | 1 Samuel 26:7 | 3 |
| מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 28:11 | 2 |
| מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֛י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | 1 Kings 19:6 | 2 |
| מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽי/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | 1 Samuel 19:16 | 2 |
| מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֔י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 28:18 | 1 |
| מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | 1 Samuel 26:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4763, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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.
