Strong’s H8040 · Hebrew
שְׂמֹאול
sᵉmôʼwl · sem-ole'
Origin or שְׂמֹאל; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as שִׂמְלָה (H8071) (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up);
Meaning properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand
In the King James Version left (hand, side).
In 53 verses of the King James Version
51–53 of 53
- Zechariah 4:3And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- Zechariah 4:11Then 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?
- Zechariah 12:6In 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.