What was the original word - Latin or Greek - in the Bible that says what power God gave us over animals that was translated into the English dominion?

Answer 1

The Old Testament was mainly written in Hebrew, so the original word from which the word 'dominion' translated from is Hebrew. The first mention of the word 'dominion' is in Gen 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

The Hebrew word according to Strong's Dictionary is: raw-daw.

Which means the following:

1. Brown-Driver-Biggs Definition:

1) to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down

1a) (Qal) to have dominion, rule, subjugate

1b) (Hiphil) to cause to dominate

2) to scrape out

2a) (Qal) to scrape, scrape out

2. Strong's Hebrew and Greek Definitions:

raw-daw'

A primitive root; to tread down, that is, subjugate; specifically to crumble off: - (come to, make to) have dominion, prevail against, reign, (bear, make to) rule, (-r, over), take.

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