King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H8040
Transliteration: semovl or semol
Phonetic Spelling: (sem-ole')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the left
Meaning: dark, the north, the left hand
Word Summary
semovl or semol: the left
Original Word: שְׂמֹאולTransliteration: semovl or semol
Phonetic Spelling: (sem-ole')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the left
Meaning: dark, the north, the left hand
Strong's Concordance
left hand, side Or smosl {sem-ole'}; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as simlah (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up); properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. The north; hence (by orientation), the left hand -- left (hand, side).
see HEBREW simlah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8040. semovl
or semol שְׂמאֹול שְׂמאֹל, (BaerJoshua 1:7)54
noun [masculine] the left (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian šumêlu; Arabic (also and , , north wind); Old Aramaic שמאל, Palmyrene (suffix) סמלך; Syriac ; √ dubious, שאם + ל NöM 128 HomA. u. A. i. (1892), 21 Köii. 1. 148, 405; (see also Thes DietrWortforschung 234), compare Arabic be unlucky, left, , north; Sabean שאם north, unlucky DHMEpigr. Denkm. 29; Epigr. Denkm. Arabic Nos. 6. 7; other views in Sta§ 299 LagBN 116); — שְׂמאֹל abs, Genesis 13:9 +, construct 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 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. + ׳מִהַשּׂ2 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; 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; 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.