Word

שָׂמַאל

sâmaʼl · H8041 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to go to the left

Action by which humans turn to the left, 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 left hand (to do (something) with the left 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom+ כֹּלall, every, whole 1
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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Move002002001012: This verb denotes turning or going in the leftward direction, as in Genesis 13:9's proposal that if Lot chooses the left, Abram will go to the right.
Engage002003003011: The verb also describes fighting ambidextrously, as in 1 Chronicles 12:2's description of Saul's Benjaminite kinsmen using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and shoot arrows.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8041. simel [שִׂמְאֵל] verb denominative Hiph`il take the left (always opposed to…

H8041. simel
[שִׂמְאֵל] verb denominative Hiph`il take the left (always opposed to הֵמִין): — Imperfect cohortative אַשְׂמְאִ֫ילָה Gen 13:9; Gen 13:2masculine plural, תַּשְׂמְאִ֫ילוּ Isa 30:21; Imperative feminine singular הַשְׂמִילִי (Ges§ 23f Kö1. 276) Eze 21:21, compare Infinitive construct הַשְׂמִיל 2Sa 14:19; Participle מַשְׂמִאלִים 1Ch 12:2; —
1 = go to the left Gen 13:9 (J), Eze 21:21.
2 figurative turn (aside) to the left (from true way) 2Sa 14:19; Isa 30:21.
3 use the left hand 1Ch 12:2.
[שָׂמַל] Hiph`il see [שַׂמְאַל]

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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