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H8040

שמאל

שמאל
shamaahl

Masculine noun · A primitive word [rather perhaps from the same as שמלה (H8071) (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up]

Or שמאל sᵉmôʼl; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as H8071 (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).

Outline

  1. the left, the left hand, the left side
    1. left
    2. left hand
    3. north (as one faces east)

Usages (2/2)

Zechariah 4:3

And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

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Zechariah 4:11

Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

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Zechariah 12:6

In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

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