Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H8041: שָׂמַאל

sâmaʼl · pronounced saw-mal' · “to go left”

Definition

to use the left hand or pass in that direction)

KJV translates it as: (go, turn) (on the, to the) left.

Word origin: a primitive root (denominative from H8040 (שְׂמֹאול));

1) to take the left, go to the left
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to go to the left
1a2) to turn (aside) to the left (fig)
1a3) to use the left hand

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

Sâmaʼl appears in 5 verses.

Genesis 13:9
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.
2 Samuel 14:19
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
1 Chronicles 12:2
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.
Isaiah 30:21
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Ezekiel 21:16
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.