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# שְׂמָאלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8042

**left** — used 9 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

left [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8042/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂמָאלִי: adj. left, on the left [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8042/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. left, on the left;—שׂ׳ 1 K 7:21 +; f. שְׂמָאלִית Lv 14:15 +;—left (usually opp. יְמָנִי), pillar 1 K 7:21 = 2 Ch 3:17, side of temple 2 K 11:11 = 2 Ch 23:10, side of body Ez 4:4, palm Lv 14:15, 16, 26, 27 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: left (8); the left \[pillar\] (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 14:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.26/#tree)

וּמִן־הַשֶּׁ֖מֶן יִצֹ֣ק הַכֹּהֵ֑ן עַל־כַּ֥ף הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and some.of the oil he.will.pour the priest on the.palm of the.priest (the) left

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.

[Leviticus 14:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.15/#tree)

וְלָקַ֥ח הַכֹּהֵ֖ן מִלֹּ֣ג הַשָּׁ֑מֶן וְיָצַ֛ק עַל־כַּ֥ף הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take the priest some of.the.log of.(the) oil and he.will.pour.\[it\] on the.palm of the.priest (the) left

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8042.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8042/): 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).