Strong's #8040: smo'wl (pronounced sem-ole')
or smosl {sem-ole'}; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as 8071 (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up); properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand:--left (hand, side).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׂ / ׂ
śemô'l / śem'ôl
1) the left, the left hand, the left side
1a) left
1b) left hand
1c) north (as one faces east)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: a primitive word [rather perhaps from the same as H8071 (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up]
Usage:
This word is used 54 times:
Genesis 13:9: "I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand,"
Genesis 14:15: "them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus."
Genesis 24:49: "the right hand, or to the left."
Genesis 48:13: "Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's"
Genesis 48:13: "toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand,"
Genesis 48:14: "head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly;"
Exodus 14:22: "ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left."
Exodus 14:29: "and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left."
Numbers 20:17: "we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders."
Numbers 22:26: "way to turn either to the right hand or to the left."
Deuteronomy 2:27: "along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left."
Deuteronomy 5:32: "you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left."
Deuteronomy 17:11: "which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left."
Deuteronomy 17:20: "and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong"
Deuteronomy 28:14: "I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other"
Joshua 1:7: "not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever"
Joshua 19:27: "and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,"
Joshua 23:6: "aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;"
Judges 3:21: "And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger"
Judges 7:20: "the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands"
Judges 16:29: "of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left."
1 Samuel 6:12: "as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went"
2 Samuel 2:19: "to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner."
2 Samuel 2:21: "thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men,"
2 Samuel 16:6: "and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left."
1 Kings 7:39: "side of the house, and five on the left side of the house:"
1 Kings 7:49: "five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle,"
1 Kings 22:19: "standing by him on his right hand and on his left."
2 Kings 22:2: "his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left."
2 Kings 23:8: "of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate"
1 Chronicles 6:44: "the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son"
2 Chronicles 3:17: "the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called"
2 Chronicles 4:6: "five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them:"
2 Chronicles 4:7: "five on the right hand, and five on the left."
2 Chronicles 4:8: "five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred"
2 Chronicles 18:18: "standing on his right hand and on his left."
2 Chronicles 34:2: "his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left."
Nehemiah 8:4: "and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah,"
Job 23:9: " On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see"
Proverbs 3:16: "Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor."
Proverbs 4:27: "Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil."
Ecclesiastes 10:2: "is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left."
Song of Solomon 2:6: " His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace"
Song of Solomon 8:3: " His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace"
Isaiah 9:20: "and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man"
Isaiah 54:3: "For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate"
Ezekiel 1:10: "and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."
Ezekiel 16:46: "and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand,"
Ezekiel 39:3: "And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right"
Daniel 12:7: "the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore"
