שְׂמָאלִי
sᵉmâʼlîy · H8042 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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left
A reference to the side of the body where the heart is located
ExamplesLeviticus 14:15 “The priest shall also take some of the log of oil, and pour it into his left palm;
Leviticus 14:16 the priest shall then dip his right-hand finger into the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:26 “The priest shall also pour some of the oil into his left palm;
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׁםname 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
- ἀριστερός aristerós · G710 · left, left side, left hand
- Greek ἀριστερός directly translates Hebrew שְׂמָאלִי in directional contexts designating the left side or left hand, with the Greek gloss parenthetical '(as second-best)' reflecting Greco-Roman cultural convention rather than a semantic distinction requiring register scoping.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- This adjective denotes the left side, as in Leviticus 14:15's instruction for the priest to pour oil into his left palm.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8042. semali שְׂמָאלִי adjective left, on the left; — ׳שׂ 1Ki 7:21 +; feminine…
שְׂמָאלִי adjective left, on the left; — ׳שׂ 1Ki 7:21 +; feminine שְׂמָאלִית Lev 14:15 +; — left (usually opposed to יְמָנִי), pillar 1Ki 7:21 2Ch 3:17, side of temple 2Ki 11:11 2Ch 23:10, side of body Eze 4:4, palm Lev 14:15-16, Lev 14:26, Lev 14:17 (P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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