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Strong's H8040 שְׂמֹאול (semol)

smo'wl - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Strong's Number H8040
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 22

Strong's H8040 Quick Answer

Strong's H8040 שְׂמוֹאל שְׂמאוֹל (smo'wl) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. smo'wl (sem-ole') (or smosl {sem-ole'}) n-m. 1. (properly) dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north 2. hence (by orientation), the left hand It has 53 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include left and north. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
smo'wl (sem-ole') (or smosl {sem-ole'}) n-m. 1. (properly) dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north 2. hence (by orientation), the left hand
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
left and north

Meaning and Definition

smo'wl (sem-ole') (or smosl {sem-ole'}) n-m. 1. (properly) dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north 2. hence (by orientation), the left hand [a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as H8071 (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up)] KJV: left (hand, side). Root(s): H8071

Original Word
שְׂמוֹאל שְׂמאוֹל
Transliteration
smo'wl
Derivation
First root strongs: 8071
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8040. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H8040 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render smo'wl, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

left Genesis 13:9 51× north Joshua 19:27

How Strong's H8040 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8040 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H8040 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 13:9 KJV

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Genesis 14:15 KJV

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

Genesis 24:49 KJV

And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8040.

Genesis 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 24:49 Old Testament, KJV
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
Genesis 48:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
Genesis 48:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Exodus 14:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 14:29 Old Testament, KJV
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Numbers 20:17 Old Testament, KJV
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Numbers 22:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 2:27 Old Testament, KJV
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 5:32 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 17:11 Old Testament, KJV
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 17:20 Old Testament, KJV
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:14 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Joshua 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
Joshua 19:27 Old Testament, KJV
And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
Joshua 23:6 Old Testament, KJV
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
Judges 3:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges 7:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges 16:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
1 Samuel 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
2 Samuel 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
2 Samuel 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
2 Samuel 16:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 7:39 Old Testament, KJV
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
1 Kings 7:49 Old Testament, KJV
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
1 Kings 22:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
2 Kings 22:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Kings 23:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
1 Chronicles 6:44 Old Testament, KJV
And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
2 Chronicles 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
2 Chronicles 4:6 Old Testament, KJV
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
2 Chronicles 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
2 Chronicles 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
2 Chronicles 18:18 Old Testament, KJV
Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
2 Chronicles 34:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
Nehemiah 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
Job 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Proverbs 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Proverbs 4:27 Old Testament, KJV
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Ecclesiastes 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Song of Solomon 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
Song of Solomon 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
Isaiah 9:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Isaiah 54:3 Old Testament, KJV
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Ezekiel 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 16:46 Old Testament, KJV
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Ezekiel 39:3 Old Testament, KJV
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Daniel 12:7 Old Testament, KJV
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Jonah 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Zechariah 4:3 Old Testament, KJV
And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Zechariah 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
Zechariah 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8040, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H8040 FAQ

What does semol (שְׂמֹאול) mean?

Strong's H8040 is a Hebrew entry for H8040 שְׂמוֹאל שְׂמאוֹל (smo'wl). smo'wl (sem-ole') (or smosl {sem-ole'}) n-m. 1. (properly) dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north 2. hence (by orientation), the left hand

How many times is semol (שְׂמֹאול) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H8040 across 22 books.

Where can I study semol (שְׂמֹאול) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8040 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate semol (שְׂמֹאול)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as left and north. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.