יָמִין
yamin · right hand, south
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3225 · appears 139 times in the Bible
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yamin (יָמִין) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “right hand, south”.
Right, right hand. Facing the east, the right is the south. It is also the side of honor and of strength.
How to say it
ya·min
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
- The hand on the side of strength and honor.
- The right side.
- The south side, which lies to the right of one facing east.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
The right: the right hand, side or eye; and, facing east, the south. BDB: the right hand or side, as the stronger and more dexterous; locally, the south. From the same root is the name Benjamin.
- Jacob's right hand on Ephraim Genesis 48:13Genesis 48:17
- “Your right hand, YHWH” Exodus 15:6
- “Sit at my right hand” Psalms 110:1Psalms 16:8
- “Do not turn aside to the right or to the left” Deuteronomy 5:32
- The south 1 Samuel 23:19
How we translate it
“Right hand” 68 times, “right” 63, “south” 6, “left-handed” 2. “Right hand” when the hand itself is meant, also the hand of YHWH; “right” with other parts of the body (“the right thigh”) and for a side; “south” when it gives a direction. “Left-handed” translates the expression “bound of the right hand” (Judges 3:15).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- right hand ×68
- right ×63
- south ×6
- left-handed ×2
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Where it appears
- Genesis×7
- Exodus×6
- Leviticus×5
- Numbers×3
- Deuteronomy×6
- Joshua×3
- Judges×7
- 1 Samuel×4
- 2 Samuel×5
- 1 Kings×4
- 2 Kings×3
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×6
- Nehemiah×2
- Job×3
- Psalms×42
- Proverbs×3
- Ecclesiastes×1
- Song of Songs×2
- Isaiah×9
- Jeremiah×1
- Lamentations×2
- Ezekiel×5
- Daniel×1
- Jonah×1
- Habakkuk×1
- Zechariah×6
- Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; and if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
- Genesis 24:49
So now, if you are going to show loyal love and faithfulness to my lord, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.”
- Genesis 48:13
Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them near to him.
- Genesis 48:14
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
- Genesis 48:17
When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was displeasing in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.
- Genesis 48:18
Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
- Exodus 14:22
The sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29
But the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.
- Exodus 15:6
Your right hand, YHWH, is majestic in power; your right hand, YHWH, shatters the enemy.
- Exodus 15:12
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
- Exodus 29:22
You shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of ordination,
- Leviticus 7:32
And the right thigh you shall give as a contribution to the priest from your sacrifices of peace.
- Leviticus 7:33
The one among the sons of Aaron who presents the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh as a portion.
- Leviticus 8:25
He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.
- Leviticus 8:26
And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before YHWH he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh.
- Leviticus 9:21
But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave offering before YHWH, as Moses had commanded.
- Numbers 18:18
But their flesh shall be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and like the right thigh, it shall be yours.
- Numbers 20:17
Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the way of the king; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
- Numbers 22:26
And the angel of YHWH went ahead again and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn to the right or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 2:27
“Let me pass through your land. By the road, by the road I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 5:32
Be careful to do as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 17:11
According to the instruction that they instruct you and according to the judgment that they tell you, you shall act; you shall not turn aside from the word that they announce to you, to the right or the left.
- Deuteronomy 17:20
so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and so that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, in order that he may prolong his days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 28:14
and do not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, “YHWH came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of holy ones; at his right hand a fire of law for them.
- Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very firm, being careful to do according to all the instruction that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it to the right or to the left, so that you may act wisely wherever you go.
- Joshua 17:7
And the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem; and the border went to the south, to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
- Joshua 23:6
And be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the instruction of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left,
- Judges 3:15
The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, and YHWH raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a man left-handed. The sons of Israel sent by his hand tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
- Judges 3:16
Ehud made for himself a sword; it had two edges, a cubit in length, and he strapped it under his clothes, on his right thigh.
- Judges 3:21
Ehud reached out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
- Judges 5:26
Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.
- Judges 7:20
The three companies blew the horns and broke the jars; they held in their left hand the torches, and in their right hand the horns to blow, and they called out, “A sword for YHWH and for Gideon!”
- Judges 16:29
And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he braced himself against them, one with his right hand and one with his left.
- Judges 20:16
Of all this people there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed; every one of these could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
- 1 Samuel 6:12
And the cows went straight on the road, on the road to Beth-shemesh; along one highway they went, going and lowing, and they did not turn aside to the right or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines were walking after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.
- 1 Samuel 11:2
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you: by gouging out every right eye of yours, and I will put it as a reproach on all Israel.”
- 1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the south of the wasteland?
- 1 Samuel 23:24
They arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah, to the south of the wasteland.
- 2 Samuel 2:19
Asahel pursued Abner, and he did not turn aside to go to the right or to the left from following Abner.
And 99 more times.