Lexicon :: Strong's H8040 - śᵊmō'l

“Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate 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.”

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

“Now, if you are going to show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; if not, tell me, and I will go elsewhere.”[fn]

Then Joseph took them both ​— ​with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel’s left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel’s right ​— ​and brought them to Israel.

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

“Please let us travel through your land. We won’t travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway; we won’t turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.’ ”

The angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left.

“‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.

“Be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.

“You must abide by the instruction they give you and the verdict they announce to you. Do not turn to the right or the left from the decision they declare to you.

“Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue reigning many years[fn] in Israel.

“Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.

“Above all, be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.

It turned eastward to Beth-dagon, reached Zebulun and Iphtah-el Valley, north toward Beth-emek and Neiel, and went north to Cabul,

“Be very strong and continue obeying all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you do not turn from it to the right or left

Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

The three companies blew their rams’ horns and shattered their pitchers. They held their torches in their left hands and their rams’ horns to blow in their right hands, and they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon! ”

Samson took hold of the two middle pillars supporting the temple and leaned against them, one on his right hand and the other on his left.

The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh. They stayed on that one highway, lowing as they went; they never strayed to the right or to the left. The Philistine rulers were walking behind them to the territory of Beth-shemesh.

He chased Abner and did not turn to the right or the left in his pursuit of him.

Abner said to him, “Turn to your right or left, seize one of the young soldiers, and take whatever you can get from him.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

He threw stones at David and at all the royal[fn] servants, the people and the warriors on David’s right and left.

He set five water carts on the right side of the temple and five on the left side. He put the basin near the right side of the temple toward the southeast.

the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

Then Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and the whole heavenly army was standing by him at his right hand and at his left hand.

He did what was right in the LORD’s sight and walked in all the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn to the right or the left.

Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and he defiled the high places from Geba to Beer-sheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the city gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city (on the left at the city gate).

On the left, their relatives were Merari’s sons:

Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi,

son of Malluch,

Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin[fn] and the one on the left Boaz.[fn]

He made ten basins for washing and he put five on the right and five on the left. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the basin was used by the priests for washing.

Then Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and the whole heavenly army was standing at his right hand and at his left hand.

He did what was right in the LORD’s sight and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or the left.

The scribe Ezra stood on a high wooden platform made for this purpose. Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah stood beside him on his right; to his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him;

when he turns south, I cannot find him.

Long life[fn] is in her right hand;

in her left, riches and honor.

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;

keep your feet away from evil.

A wise person’s heart goes to the[fn] right,

but a fool’s heart to the left.

May his left hand be under my head,

and his right arm embrace me.

May his left hand be under my head,

and his right arm embrace me.

They carve meat on the right,

but they are still hungry;

they have eaten on the left,

but they are still not satisfied.

Each one eats the flesh of his arm.

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left,

and your descendants will dispossess nations

and inhabit the desolate cities.

Their faces looked something like the face of a human, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left, and the face of an eagle.

Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you, and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.

“Then I will knock your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.

Then I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the water of the river. He raised both his hands[fn] toward heaven and swore by him who lives eternally that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people is shattered, all these things will be completed.

“So may I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than a hundred twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals? ”