Lexicon :: Strong's H7287 - rāḏâ

Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.”

“One from [the descendants of] Jacob shall have dominion

And will destroy the remnant from the city.”

“Then down marched the survivors to the nobles;

The people of the LORD marched down for Me against the mighty.

These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work.

“But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil before You;

Therefore You abandoned them into the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them.

Yet when they turned and cried out again to You, You heard them from heaven,

And You rescued them many times in accordance with Your compassion,

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);

Death will be their shepherd;

And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,

And their form and beauty shall [fn]be for Sheol to consume,

So that they have no dwelling [on earth].

The youngest is there, Benjamin, ruling them,

The princes of Judah and their company [the southern tribes],

The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali [the northern tribes].

May he also rule from sea to sea

And from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.

The LORD will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion, saying,

“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Which used to strike the peoples in anger with incessant blows,

Which subdued and ruled the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution.

“Who has stirred up and put into action one from the east [the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great]

Whom He calls in righteousness to His service and whom victory meets at every step?

The LORD turns nations over to him

And subdues kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

Like wind-driven chaff with his bow.

The prophets prophesy falsely,

And the priests rule [fn]on their own authority;

And My people love [to have] it so!

But what will you do when the end comes?

“From on high He sent fire into my bones,

And it prevailed over them.

He has spread a net for my feet;

He has turned me back.

He has made me desolate and hopelessly miserable,

Faint all the day long.