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• The right hand is the side of strength, favor, and honor, the place of power where God saves and where the honored one is seated.Exo 15:6Psa 16:11Psa 110:1
• Marks the favored side in blessing, the hand laid on the firstborn or the place given to the one preferred.Gen 48:17Gen 48:181Ki 2:19

• Paired together they cover the two sides at once, marking opposite directions or the totality of left and right.Gen 13:9
• Set side by side in the command not to turn aside, naming both directions one must avoid straying toward.Deu 5:32Jos 1:7

• Names the left hand or left side simply as the other direction, with none of the right hand's freight of honor.Gen 14:15Jos 19:27

• Names the right hand itself as a symbol of power and favor, the place of strength where God saves and where the honored one is seated.Exo 15:6Psa 110:1Gen 48:13
• Used for the directional choice between right and left, turning to one side or the other along a path.Gen 13:9Deu 5:32Num 20:17

• Both simply locate something on the right-hand side; the noun and its adjective stand together when naming the pillar set on the right.2Ch 3:17

• A flat positional adjective, "right-side," attached to body parts in ritual: the right ear, right thumb, and right toe touched with blood or oil.Exo 29:20Lev 8:23Lev 14:14
• Locates a fixed structure or place on the right, the right-hand pillar, the right side of a building, with no overtone of power or favor.1Ki 7:21Ezk 47:12Ch 4:10

• singles out the right hand specifically, the favored and stronger sideGen 48:13Gen 48:14
• marks the place of honor and nearness, the side a person of rank is set atPsa 110:11Ki 2:19
• also means the right-hand direction, the south or the rightward side when facing a wayGen 13:9Deu 5:32

• both picture God taking hold of his people to lead and steady themPsa 139:10Isa 41:13Psa 73:23
• both stand for God's saving power that defeats his enemiesExo 15:6Psa 98:1Exo 7:4

• names either hand or the hands generally, with no built-in choice of sideExo 17:12Gen 27:22
• carries the broad sense of power, control, and reach, far beyond any one handExo 6:1Gen 9:2
• is the hand that does work and handles tools, the instrument of human actionExo 4:2Gen 5:29

• The right hand or right side, the favored and stronger hand used for blessing, oaths, and the place of honor.Gen 48:14Gen 48:181Ki 2:19
• God's right hand as the image of his saving power and triumph over enemies.Exo 15:6Exo 15:12Deu 33:2

• Both grow from the idea of the right side; for someone facing the sunrise, the south lies on the right hand, so the words for right and south spring from the same orientation.Deu 3:271Sa 23:24

• A compass direction, the south, used to lay out the tabernacle, the tribal camp, and territory.Exo 26:18Num 2:10Jos 15:1
• The quarter the wind blows from, the warm south wind that God stirs up.Psa 78:26Sng 4:16Job 39:26

• It names a direction anybody can take, with no hand or handedness in view at all. Abram tells Lot to pick either way and he will take the other, and Israel is warned never to turn off the commanded path, whether to the right or to the left.Gen 13:9Deu 5:32
• It is the word for God's own right hand, the standing picture of his saving strength. The song at the sea celebrates it as majestic in power and as the hand that shatters the enemy, and the psalm shouts that it does mighty things.Exo 15:6Psa 118:16
• It marks the place of honor beside a ruler. Solomon seats his mother at his right, and the psalm has the LORD invite David's lord to sit at his right until his enemies are made a footstool.1Ki 2:19Psa 110:1
• Because a Hebrew speaker faced the sunrise, it also serves as a compass word for "the south": David hides in the wilderness south of Jeshimon, and Sodom is the sister who sits to Jerusalem's south.1Sa 23:19Ezk 16:46

• Hebrew has no single word for "left-handed", so the two are used together: a man is called shut up in his right hand, which takes both the word for the restriction and the word for the hand. Ehud the Benjamite is introduced this way just before he hides a sword on his right thigh and kills Eglon.Jdg 3:15
• In both words the right hand is the fighting hand, and the text treats a warrior who works off the other side as an advantage rather than a defect: the seven hundred Benjamites described with this phrase are crack slingers who can hit a hair and never miss.Jdg 20:16

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