29:22 with a thigh.įourth, this word is used to mean “south,” since the south is on one’s “right” when he faces eastward: “Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?” (1 Sam.

11:2 in conjunction with one’s eye and in Exod. 3:16 the word is used of one’s thigh (literally, “thigh of the right hand”): “But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.” The word is used in 1 Sam. Third, yâmı̂yn can be used of bodily parts other than the right hand. In other contexts yâmı̂yn signifies “direction toward”: “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” (Gen. Second, yâmı̂yn represents the direction, to the “right.” In this use the word can specify the location of someone or something: “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” (Exod. This figure is used of God’s effecting His will among men and of His working in their behalf (showing His favor): “And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High” (Ps. The Bible teaches that God is a spirit and has no body or bodily parts (cf. The Bible speaks anthropomorphically, attributing to God human parts and, in particular, a “right hand” (Exod. God’s taking one’s “right hand” means that He strengthens him: “For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not: I will help thee” (Isa. Yâmı̂yn may be used in a figurative sense. Ehud was “bound as to his right hand” he was lefthanded: “But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded …” (Judg. It appears about 137 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew.įirst, the word represents the bodily part called the “right hand”: “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 …” (Gen. Yâmı̂yn ( יָמִין, Strong's #3225), “right hand.” This word has cognates attested in Ugaritic, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, and Ethiopic.

Hebrew word for right hand of god