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# יְמָנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3233

**right hand** — used 33 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

right hand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3233/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְמָנִי: adj. right hand, right elsewhere [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3233/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. right hand, right—m. of pillar הָעַמּוּד הַיְמָנִי 1 K 7:21 = הַיְמָנִי in ‖ 2 Ch 3:17 Qr (Kt הימיני); f. of side of house (temple): כֶּתֶף הַבַּיִת הַיְמָנִית 1 K 6:8; 7:39 (‖ כֶּתֶף הבית מִיָּמִין), 2 K 11:11 (opp. הַשְּׂמָאלִית), Ez 47:1, cf. v 2; 2 Ch 4:10; 23:10 (opp. הַשְּׂמָאלִית); elsewhere of parts of body (P): right ear, hand and foot \[ה\]אזן הַימָנִית + יד(ם) הַי׳ + רגל(ם) הַי׳ Ex 29:20; Lv 8:23, 24; 14:14, 17, 25, 28; right finger אֶצְבָּעוֹ הַי׳ 14:16, 27; cf. also right side, m. צִדְּךָ הַיְמָנִי Ez 4:6 Qr (Kt הימיני).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: right (30); south (2); the right \[pillar\] (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.10/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַיָּ֗ם נָתַ֞ן מִכֶּ֧תֶף הַיְמָנִ֛ית קֵ֖דְמָה מִמּ֥וּל נֶֽגְבָּה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the sea he.put from the.side of.(the) right eastward from in.front.of south (to).\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

[Leviticus 14:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.27/#tree)

וְהִזָּ֤ה הַכֹּהֵן֙ בְּאֶצְבָּע֣וֹ הַיְמָנִ֔ית מִן־הַשֶּׁ֕מֶן אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־כַּפּ֖וֹ הַשְּׂמָאלִ֑ית שֶׁ֥בַע פְּעָמִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.spatter the priest with finger his (the) right some.of the oil which \[is\].on palm his (the) left seven times before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3233.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3233/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).