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:
Jonah 4:11: "than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand;"
Zechariah 4:3: "upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left"
Zechariah 4:11: "the right side of the candlestick and upon the left"
Zechariah 12:6: "on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place,"
