Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3231

יָמַן

ya.man · “to go right”

Used 4 times across 4 books

Definition

(Hiphil) to choose the right, go to the right, use the right hand, be right handed
Also means: a.man (אָמַן "to turn right" H0541)

Where it appears

Genesis

1

2 Samuel

1

1 Chronicles

1

Ezekiel

1

In the text

Genesis 13:9Is 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.2 Samuel 14:19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:1 Chronicles 12:2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

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