Then God blessed them, and God said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue
it;
have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
(1769 King James
Version Genesis 1:28)
The
English word “dominion” is associated
with two other meanings -- “to tread on”
and “to rule.” All three English
words are “power” words.
The Creator empowered the two humans to have power
over every living thing that moves on the earth.
But,
The Hebrew & Aramaic Lexicon of the
Old Testament, Volume 3 (p. 1190) contains a very important note about the
Hebrew word translated “dominion”:
The basic meaning of the verb is not to rule;
the word actually denotes the traveling around of the shepherd with his flock.
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