noun [masculine] the left (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian šumêlu; Arabic (also and , , north wind); Old Aramaic שמאל, Palmyrene (suffix) סמלך; Syriac ; √ dubious, שאם + ל Nö^{M 128} Hom^{A. u. A. i. (1892), 21} Kö^{ii. 1. 148, 405}; (see also Thes Dietr^{Wortforschung 234}), compare Arabic be unlucky, left, , north; Sabean שאם north, unlucky DHM^{Epigr. Denkm. 29; Epigr. Denkm. Arabic Nos. 6. 7}; other views in Sta^{§ 299} Lag^{BN 116}); — שְׂמאֹל abs, Genesis 13:9 +, construct Genesis 48:13; 2 Kings 23:8; שְׂמאֹול absolute Numbers 20:17 +; suffix שְׂמאֹלֶ֑ךָ 2 Samuel 2:21, שְׂמאֹלוֺ Genesis 48:13 +, etc.; — opposed to יָמִין except Genesis 14:15; Judges 19:27; 2 Kings 23:8; —

1 left, region on the left, Genesis 13:9 (J); on the left is ׳עַלשּֿׂ 2 Kings 23:8; Ezekiel 16:46; Zechariah 4:3,11, ׳עַלהַֿשּׂ 1 Chronicles 6:29 compare 2 Chronicles 18:18, also ׳מִשּׂ (a sinistra) Exodus 14:22,29 (P), 2 Samuel 16:6 7t. + ׳מִהַשּׂ2Chronicles 3:17; Ezekiel 1:10, ׳לִשׂ Ecclesiastes 10:2, ׳שׂ alone Job 23:9; toward the left is ׳עַלשֿׂ Genesis 24:49 (J), 2 Samuel 2:21; Zechariah 12:6, ׳עַלהַֿשּׂ 2 Samuel 2:19, ׳שׂ alone 1 Samuel 6:12; Isaiah 9:20 13t.

2 ׳יַדשֿׂ left hand, Judges 3:21; Judges 7:20, so ׳שׂ alone Genesis 48:18,13,14 (E), Judges 16:29; Ezekiel 39:8; Jonah 4:11; Proverbs 3:16; Daniel 12:7; Songs 2:6; Songs 8:3.

3 = north (on left of one facing east, compare אָחוֺר

d, יָמִין

4, קֶדֶם

1 b) Genesis 14:15; Joshua 19:27(P); of. Ezekiel 16:46.