Quick Definition
left
Strong's Definition
properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand
Derivation: or שְׂמֹאל; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as H8071 (שִׂמְלָה) (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up);
KJV Usage: left (hand, side).
TWOT Reference: 2267a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שְׂמֹאל (se.mo.l) — left. 1) the left, the left hand, the left side 1a) left 1b) left hand 1c) north (as one faces east)
שְׂמֹאל (se.mo.l) — left: north. 1) the left, the left hand, the left side 1a) left 1b) left hand 1c) north (as one faces east)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Spatial Referents | ≠ יָמִין
left side, left = a referent pointing to the north side of the human body when facing the sunrise, ≈ in extension: one option as opposed to another
GEN 13:9 · GEN 24:49 · GEN 48:13 · GEN 48:13 · GEN 48:14 · EXO 14:22 · EXO 14:29 · NUM 20:17 · NUM 22:26 · DEU 2:27 · DEU 5:32 · DEU 17:11 · DEU 17:20 · DEU 28:14 · JOS 1:7 · JOS 23:6 · JDG 3:21 · JDG 7:20 · JDG 16:29 · 1SA 6:12 · 2SA 2:19 · 2SA 2:21 · 2SA 16:6 · 1KI 22:19 · 2KI 22:2 · 2KI 23:8 · 1CH 6:29 · 2CH 18:18 · 2CH 34:2 · NEH 8:4 · PRO 3:16 · PRO 4:27 · ECC 10:2 · SNG 2:6 · SNG 8:3 · ISA 9:19 · ISA 54:3 · EZK 1:10 · EZK 39:3 · DAN 12:7 · JON 4:11 · ZEC 4:3 · ZEC 4:11 · ZEC 12:6
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שְׂמֹאל, שְׂמֹאול 54 n.[m.] the left (√ dub.) left, region on the left
left hand
= north (on left of one facing east)
base