# H8040 שְׂמֹאול

שְׂמֹאול (sᵉmôʼwl), Strong’s H8040: properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand KJV: left (hand, side).. Occurs 54 times.

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*sᵉmôʼwl* — properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand

KJV: left (hand, side).

Derived from [שִׂמְלָה simlâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H8071) (a dress, especially a mantle)

Occurs 54 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שְׂמֹאל, שְׂמֹאול 54 n.[m.] the left (√ dub.)
- 1 left, region on the left
- 2 left hand
- 3 = north (on left of one facing east)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 13:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=9) — Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the…
- [Genesis 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=15) — He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…
- [Genesis 24:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=49) — Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or…
- [Genesis 48:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=13) — Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward…
- [Genesis 48:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=14) — Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on…
- [Exodus 14:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=22) — The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their…
- [Exodus 14:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=29) — But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their…
- [Numbers 20:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=17) — “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from…
- [Numbers 22:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=26) — The LORD’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or…
- [Deuteronomy 2:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=27) — “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.