שׇׁלְטָן
dominion
‘dominion’ is one of 2 main senses 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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 10 times (71%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (14%)
- Particle, Definite Article 2 times (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7985 appears — 9 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 9 verses
- Daniel 4:3 וְ/שָׁלְטָנֵ֖/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:22 וְ/שָׁלְטָנָ֖/ךְ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
- Daniel 4:34 שָׁלְטָנֵ/הּ֙ שָׁלְטָ֣ן n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Daniel 6:26 שָׁלְטָ֣ן וְ/שָׁלְטָנֵ֖/הּ n c ms cs conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
- Daniel 7:6 וְ/שָׁלְטָ֖ן conj + n c ms After this I saw, and, behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
- Daniel 7:12 שָׁלְטָנְ/ה֑וֹן n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
- Daniel 7:14 שָׁלְטָן֙ שָׁלְטָנֵ֞/הּ שָׁלְטָ֤ן n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
- Daniel 7:26 וְ/שָׁלְטָנֵ֣/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
- Daniel 7:27 וְ/שָׁלְטָנָ֜/א שָׁלְטָ֣נַיָּ֔/א conj + n c ms det + ptcl def.art n c mp det + ptcl def.art The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole the sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
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 noun שלטן (sholṭân). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Daniel 4:3. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7985 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 9 verses 100%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 100%
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 12×
- American Standard Version: Dominion 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dominion 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dominion 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7985 across 14 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7985 across 14 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7985 across 14 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 H7985 across 15 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.
- dominion, sovereignty
- realm
Word origin
Derived from שלט (shᵉlêṭ) (H7981) — to rule.
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.
שֳׁלְטַן
- , v. sub שׁוּלְטָ׳.
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 12 distinct written forms H7985 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/שָׁלְטָנֵ֖/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:3 | 2 |
| שָׁלְטָ֣ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:34 | 2 |
| וְ/שָׁלְטָ֖ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:6 | 1 |
| וְ/שָׁלְטָנֵ֣/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:26 | 1 |
| וְ/שָׁלְטָנָ֖/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:22 | 1 |
| וְ/שָׁלְטָנָ֜/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:27 | 1 |
| שָׁלְטָ֣נַיָּ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:27 | 1 |
| שָׁלְטָ֤ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:14 | 1 |
| שָׁלְטָן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:14 | 1 |
| שָׁלְטָנְ/ה֑וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:12 | 1 |
| שָׁלְטָנֵ/הּ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:34 | 1 |
| שָׁלְטָנֵ֞/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:14 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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.
