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Joshua 12:5
“And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4910 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to rule
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- (have, make to have) dominion, governor, [idiom] indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.
- Grammar
- וּ֠ — conjunction
- מֹשֵׁל — verb Qal, active participle, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 82 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:18Genesis 3:16Genesis 4:7Genesis 24:2Genesis 37:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָשַׁל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.