Left
שְׂמֹאלStrong’s H8040semol (se-mo-l)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Semol is the Hebrew word usually translated “left”, “left his” and “from north”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”
Meaning
- The left, the left hand, the left sideleft · left hand · north (as one faces east)
How it's translated
- and left 14
- left 4
- left his 4
- the left 3
- from north 3
- from left 3
- and from left his 3
- and left his 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Genesis 5
- Deuteronomy 5
- Joshua 3
- Judges 3
- 2 Samuel 3
22 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 4:3In contextAnd two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- Zechariah 4:11In contextThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
- Zechariah 12:6In contextIn that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
- Genesis 13:9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
- Genesis 14:15And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
- Genesis 24:49And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂמֹאל semol · left
1) the left, the left hand, the left side 1a) left 1b) left hand 1c) north (as one faces east)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “left” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEFT, adjective
[Latin lavus; Gr. probably from the root of leave, Gr. and properly weak, deficient. Applied to the hand or arm, it denotes the weak arm, as opposed to the right, the strong or dextrous. Hence the ancient idea of sinister, unfortunate, attached to the left arm or side.]
- Denoting the part opposed to the right of the body; as the left hand, arm or side.
- The left bank of a river, is that which is on the left hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of the river.
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.