36 occurrences

'Left' in the Bible

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I'll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I'll go to the left."

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham's servant took Rebekah and left.

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

Isaac replied to Esau, "Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

"I left secretly because I was afraid!" Jacob replied to Laban. "I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.

Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.

The man said, "They left this area, for I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

After some time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow's clothes.

So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying, "Have sex with me!" But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside."

but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside."

So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.

But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave."

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them, "As you travel don't be overcome with fear."

Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel's left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel's right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.

Israel stretched out his right hand and placed it on Ephraim's head, although he was the younger. Crossing his hands, he put his left hand on Manasseh's head, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂמאל שׂמאול 
S@mo'wl 
Usage: 54

ἀριστερός 
Aristeros 
left hand , left , on the left
Usage: 2

εὐώνυμος 
Euonumos 
left , on the left hand , left foot
Usage: 6

שׂמאלי 
S@ma'liy 
Usage: 9

אטּר 
'itter 
Usage: 2

חדל 
Chadal 
Usage: 58

ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 207

לין לוּן 
Luwn 
lodge , murmur , ... the night , abide , remain , tarry , lodge in , continue , dwell , endure , grudge , left , lie , variant
Usage: 84

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 9

שׂמאל 
Sama'l 
Usage: 5

שׂריד 
Sariyd 
Usage: 27

περίσσευμα 
Perisseuma 
Usage: 3

περισσεύω 
Perisseuo 
Usage: 31

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