Strong's H8040 · Hebrew

smo'wl

sem-ole'

or smosl {sem-ole'}; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as 8071 (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up); properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H8040

H8040 שְׂמֹאל , שְׂמֹאול the left (√ dub.) . left , region on the left . left hand . = north (on left of one facing east)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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