Lefthanded
אִטֵּרStrong’s H0334itter (it-ter)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Itter is the Hebrew word usually translated “impeded”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.”
Meaning
- Bound, impeded (on the right, ie, left-handed), shut, shut up
How it's translated
- impeded 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אִטֵּר itter · lefthanded
bound, impeded (on the right, ie, left-handed), shut, shut up
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lefthanded” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEFT-HAND'ED, adjective
- Having the left hand or arm more strong and dextrous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.
- Unlucky; inauspicious; unseasonable. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.