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שְׂמָאלִי

semali · left (side)

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8042 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

semali (שְׂמָאלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “left (side)”.

Left, on the left-hand side.

How to say it

se·ma·li

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 hand that is not the right.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Leviticus 14:15

    The priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it on the priest’s own left palm.

  • 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 14:26

    The priest shall pour some of the oil on the priest’s own left palm,

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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 4:4

    And you, lie on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; for the number of the days that you lie on it you will bear their iniquity.