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Strong's #8040 - שְׂמֹאל
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- the left, the left hand, the left side
- left
- left hand
- north (as one faces east)
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3036) lamx (סמאל SMAL) AC: ? CO: Left AB: ?
V) lamx (סמאל SMAL) - Left: To go to the left. [df: lamV] KJV (5): (vf: Hiphil) left - Strongs: H8041 (שִׂמְאֵל)
cm ) lafmx (סמואל SMWAL) - Left: The left hand, side or direction. [df: lamV] KJV (54): left, left hand, left side - Strongs: H8040 (שְׂמֹאל)
fm ) ilamx (סמאלי SMALY) - Left: The left hand, side or direction. [df: ylamV] KJV (9): left, left hand - Strongs: H8042 (שְׂמָאלִי)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
noun [masculine] the left (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian šumêlu; Arabic (also and , , north wind); Old Aramaic שמאל, Palmyrene (suffix) סמלך; Syriac ; √ dubious, שאם + ל Nö M 128 Hom A. u. A. i. (1892), 21 Kö ii. 1. 148,405; (see also Thes Dietr Wortforschung 234), compare Arabic be unlucky, left, , north; Sabean שאם north, unlucky DHM Epigr. Denkm. 29; Epigr. Denkm. Arabic Nos. 6. 7; other views in Sta§ 299 Lag BN 116); — שְׂמאֹל abs, Genesis 13:9 +, construct Genesis 48:13; 2 Kings 23:8; שְׂמאֹול absolute Numbers 20:17 +; suffix שְׂמאֹלֶ֑ךָ 2 Samuel 2:21, שְׂמאֹלוֺ Genesis 48:13 +, etc.; — opposed to יָמִין except Genesis 14:15; Judges 19:27; 2 Kings 23:8; —
1 left, region on the left, Genesis 13:9 (J); on the left is ׳עַלשּֿׂ 2 Kings 23:8; Ezekiel 16:46; Zechariah 4:3,11, ׳עַלהַֿשּׂ 1 Chronicles 6:29 compare 2 Chronicles 18:18, also ׳מִשּׂ ( a sinistra) Exodus 14:22,29 (P), 2 Samuel 16:6 7t. + ׳מִהַשּׂ 2 Chronicles 3:17; Ezekiel 1:10, ׳לִשׂ Ecclesiastes 10:2, ׳שׂ alone Job 23:9; toward the left is ׳עַלשֿׂ Genesis 24:49 (J), 2 Samuel 2:21; Zechariah 12:6, ׳עַלהַֿשּׂ 2 Samuel 2:19, ׳שׂ alone 1 Samuel 6:12; Isaiah 9:20 13t.
2׳יַדשֿׂ left hand, Judges 3:21; Judges 7:20, so ׳שׂ alone Genesis 48:18,13,14 (E), Judges 16:29; Ezekiel 39:8; Jonah 4:11; Proverbs 3:16; Daniel 12:7; Song of Solomon 2:6; Song of Solomon 8:3.
3 = north (on left of one facing east, compare אָחוֺר
d, יָמִין
4, קֶדֶם
1 b) Genesis 14:15; Joshua 19:27(P); of. Ezekiel 16:46.