Strong's Hebrew · H3231

H3231 yâman

יָמַן

yaw-man'

to go right

yâman appears 4 times in Scripture, in Genesis, 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles and Ezekiel. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to be right-handed or take the right-hand side

In the King James Version

go (turn) to (on, use) the right hand.

Derivation

a primitive root; to be (physically) right (i.e. firm); but used only as denominative from H3225 (יָמִין) and transitive,

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Ezekiel 21:16

“Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.”

2 Samuel 14:19

“So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.”

1 Chronicles 12:2

“they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):”

Genesis 13:9

“Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself 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.””

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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