Word

יָמַן

yâman · H3231 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to go to the right

Action by which humans turn to the right, when walking or performing another event; in extension: to choose one option as opposed to another

Examples
Genesis 13:9 “Is the entire land not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.”
2 Samuel 14:19 So the king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman replied, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
Isaiah 30:21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
Action by which humans perform an action with the right hand (to do (something) with the right hand)

Examples
1 Chronicles 12:2 They were equipped with bows, using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and shoot arrows with the bow; they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with+ קֶשֶׁתbow 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אִשׁthere is 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

δεξιός dexiós · G1188 · right, right side, right hand: Greek δεξιός denotes the right side/hand as a noun or adjective, while Hebrew יָמַן specifically denotes the action of turning or going to the right; both terms share the core semantic domain of rightward direction.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Move002002001012: יָמַן means to go or turn to the right hand, as Abram tells Lot he will go the opposite direction, whichever side Lot chooses (Genesis 13:9).
Engage002003003011: יָמַן describes deliberate directed action, as Benjaminite warriors were skilled at using the right hand as well as the left in slinging stones and shooting arrows (1 Chronicles 12:2).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָמַןyâman · H3231יָמִין yâmîyn · H3225 · right side, right, south · 139×יְמָנִי yᵉmânîy · H3233 · right, south · 33×יְמִינִי yᵉmîynîy · H3227 · right · 0×

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Move4 occurrences Engage1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0