To go left
שִׂמְאֵלStrong’s H8041samal (sa-mal)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Samal is the Hebrew word usually translated “go left”, “go to left” and “using left”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Is 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.”
Meaning
- To take the left, go to the left(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and i will go left 1
- and to go to left 1
- and using left 1
- you will go to left 1
- go to left 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 14:19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
- 1 Chronicles 12:2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.
- Isaiah 30:21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- Ezekiel 21:16Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׂמְאֵל samal · to go left
1) to take the left, go to the left 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to go to the left 1a2) to turn (aside) to the left (fig) 1a3) to use the left hand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.