יָמִין
ya.min (H3225G)
right
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# The Hebrew Word for "Right" (יָמִין) The Hebrew word *yamin* appears 124 times throughout the Bible and carries the straightforward meaning of "right"—referring to the right side or right hand as opposed to the left. This positional term serves as a basic directional marker in biblical texts, allowing writers to specify spatial orientation and location with precision. Given its frequent occurrence across 124 biblical passages, *yamin* functions as a fundamental vocabulary item for describing physical space and direction. Writers used it to orient readers within narrative scenes, architectural descriptions, and geographical accounts. The consistency of this single core meaning across such numerous occurrences suggests that biblical authors relied on this word as a stable, conventional way to reference rightward direction without ambiguity. The prominence of this term in the biblical text reflects how essential spatial language is to human communication, particularly in a literary tradition that often grounds theological and narrative meaning in concrete physical descriptions. Whether locating objects, describing movements, or establishing positions in space, *yamin* provided Hebrew speakers with a reliable linguistic tool for creating clear mental images of the scenes and situations being recounted.
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Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
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, and brought them near to him.
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.
He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;
and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
“Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.
She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”
Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.
He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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