yemani · right (side)

What it means

yemani (יְמָנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “right (side)”.

Right, on the right-hand side.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. On the side of the right hand of the one looking.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×20
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezekiel×3

• Exodus 29:20

  You shall slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of Aaron and on the lobe of the ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and splash the blood on the altar all around.

• Leviticus 8:23

  He slaughtered it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

• Leviticus 8:24

  He brought near the sons of Aaron, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and Moses splashed the blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 14:14

  The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

• Leviticus 14:16

  The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:17

  And some of the rest of the oil that is in his palm the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

• Leviticus 14:25

  He shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

• Leviticus 14:27

  and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:28

  The priest shall put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.

• 1 Kings 6:8

  The entrance of the middle side chamber was on the right side of the house; and by spiral stairs they went up to the middle one, and from the middle one to the third.

• 1 Kings 7:21

  And he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple; and he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz.

• 1 Kings 7:39

  And he put the bases, five on the side of the house on the right, and five on the side of the house on its left; and the Sea he put on the right side of the house, toward the east, facing south.

• 2 Kings 11:11

  The runners stood, each man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.

• 2 Chronicles 3:17

  He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left; and he called the name of the right one Jachin, and the name of the left one Boaz.

• 2 Chronicles 4:10

  And the Sea he put on the right side, eastward, facing south.

• 2 Chronicles 23:10

  He stationed all the people, each man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.

• Ezekiel 4:6

  And when you have completed these, you will lie on your right side a second time, and you will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; a day for a year, a day for a year, I have given it to you.

• Ezekiel 47:1

  And he brought me back to the entrance of the house, and look, water was coming out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced east; and the water was going down from under the right side of the house, south of the altar.

• Ezekiel 47:2

  And he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around by way of the outside to the outer gate by way of the one that faces east; and look, water was trickling out from the right side.

And 14 more times.