Hebrew verb · H8041
שָׂמַאל
samalsaw-mal'
to go left
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâmaʼl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8041is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8041
to use the left hand or pass in that direction)
The King James renders it: (go, turn) (on the, to the) left.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
samal is rendered "to go left". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:9Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
Genesis 13:9וְאַשְׂמְאִֽילָה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and I will go left1
- and to go to left1
- and using left1
- go to left1
- you will go to left1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַשְׂמִ֑ילִי1
- וְאַשְׂמְאִֽילָה׃1
- וּלְהַשְׂמִ֗יל1
- וּמַשְׂמִאלִים֙1
- תַשְׂמְאִֽילוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vhcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular1HC/Vhc1cs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural1HC/Vhrmpa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhi2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HVhv2fs
Genesis
one use
Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
- וְאַשְׂמְאִֽילָה׃veasmeilahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will go left
2 Samuel
one use
So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
- וּלְהַשְׂמִ֗ילulehasmilconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to go to left
1 Chronicles
one use
they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):
- וּמַשְׂמִאלִים֙umasmilimconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and using left
Isaiah
one use
And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- תַשְׂמְאִֽילוּ׃tasmeiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will go to left
Ezekiel
one use
Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.
- הַשְׂמִ֑ילִיhasmiliverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: go to left
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.