1. שמאל
to go or turn to the left
The corpus record — Hebrew
הַשְּׂמֹ֣אל
semowl
to go or turn to the left
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 54 · 1.76/10k
Senses
2. שַמאל
fin
3. שְׂמֹאל
the left
4. שְׂמֹאול
properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand
Attestations
- הַ/שְּׂמֹ֣אל Genesis 13:9 (BHS)
- מִ/שְּׂמֹ֖אל Genesis 14:15 (BHS)
- שְׂמֹֽאל Genesis 24:49 (BHS)
- מִ/שְּׂמֹ֣אל Genesis 48:13 (BHS)
- בִ/שְׂמֹאל֖/וֹ Genesis 48:13 (BHS)
- שְׂמֹאל֖/וֹ Genesis 48:14 (BHS)
6 of 54 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.