Strong's #3231: yaman (pronounced yaw-man')

a primitive root; to be (physically) right (i.e. firm); but used only as denominative from 3225 and transitive, to be right-handed or take the right-hand side:--go (turn) to (on, use) the right hand.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâman

1) (Hiphil) to choose the right, go to the right, use the right hand, be right handed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Genesis 13:9: "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."
2 Samuel 14:19: "my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught"
1 Chronicles 12:2: "They 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"
Ezekiel 21:16: "Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set."