Strong's #8041: sama'l (pronounced saw-mal')

a primitive root (denominative from 8040); to use the left hand or pass in that direction):--(go, turn) (on the, to the) left.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâma'l

1) to take the left, go to the left

1a) (Hiphil)

1a1) to go to the left

1a2) to turn (aside) to the left (figuratively)

1a3) to use the left hand

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [denominative from H8040]

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 13:9: "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: "the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that"
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"
Isaiah 30:21: "walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left."
Ezekiel 21:16: "Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set."