Hebrew adjective · H8042
שְׂמָאלִי
semalisem-aw-lee'
left
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sᵉmâʼlîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8042is 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) · H8042
situated on the left side
The King James renders it: 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
semali is rendered "left". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 14:15Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,
Leviticus 14:15הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the left5
- the north4
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 9, 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
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔י2
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֑ית2
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔ית2
- הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃2
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֖י1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular6HTd/Aafsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular3HTd/Aamsa
Leviticus
four uses
Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,
- הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃hasemalitthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the left
dip his right forefinger into the oil in his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֑יתhasemalitthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the left
Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm
- הַשְּׂמָאלִֽית׃hasemalitthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the left
and sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֑יתhasemalitthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the left
1 Kings
one use
Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔יhasemalithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the north
2 Kings
one use
And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔יתhasemalitthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the north
2 Chronicles
two uses
Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֖יhasemalithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the north
He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔יתhasemalitthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the north
Ezekiel
one use
Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.
- הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔יhasemalithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.