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title: יְמָנִי — right hand · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְמָנִי (3233), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 33 times: right hand. BDB 1906: adj. right hand, right elsewhere. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְמָנִי

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«יְמָנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **right hand** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 33 times · **Key:** 3233 · **BDB:** יְמָנִי

### Glosses

right (30); south (2); the.right.\[pillar\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

right hand [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3233/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. right hand, right elsewhere [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3233/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. right hand, right—m. of pillar הָעַמּוּד הַיְמָנִי 1 K 7:21 = הַיְמָנִי in ‖ 2 Ch 3:17 Qr (Kt הימיני); f. of side of house (temple): כֶּתֶף הַבַּיִת הַיְמָנִית 1 K 6:8; 7:39 (‖ כֶּתֶף הבית מִיָּמִין), 2 K 11:11 (opp. הַשְּׂמָאלִית), Ez 47:1, cf. v 2; 2 Ch 4:10; 23:10 (opp. הַשְּׂמָאלִית); elsewhere of parts of body (P): right ear, hand and foot \[ה\]אזן הַימָנִית + יד(ם) הַי׳ + רגל(ם) הַי׳ Ex 29:20; Lv 8:23, 24; 14:14, 17, 25, 28; right finger אֶצְבָּעוֹ הַי׳ 14:16, 27; cf. also right side, m. צִדְּךָ הַיְמָנִי Ez 4:6 Qr (Kt הימיני).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְמָנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3233/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 4:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.10/)

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וְאֶת־הַיָּ֗ם נָתַ֞ן מִכֶּ֧תֶף הַיְמָנִ֛ית קֵ֖דְמָה מִמּ֥וּל נֶֽגְבָּה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the sea he.put from the.side of.(the) right eastward from in.front.of south (to).\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

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[Leviticus 14:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.27/)

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וְהִזָּ֤ה הַכֹּהֵן֙ בְּאֶצְבָּע֣וֹ הַיְמָנִ֔ית מִן־הַשֶּׁ֕מֶן אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־כַּפּ֖וֹ הַשְּׂמָאלִ֑ית שֶׁ֥בַע פְּעָמִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.spatter the priest with finger his (the) right some.of the oil which \[is\].on palm his (the) left seven times before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.

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