Definition

to rule

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (have
• make to have) dominion
• governor
• indeed
• reign
• (bear
• cause to
• have) rule(-ing
• -r)
• have power

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.