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  #8040 שְׂמוֹאל s@mo'wl {sem-ole'}
     or שְׂמֹאל s@mo'l {sem-ole'}

 a primitive word [rather perhaps from the same as H8071 (by insertion
    of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up]; TWOT - 2267a; n m

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) the left, the left hand, the left side
    1a) left
    1b) left hand
    1c) north (as one faces east)

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

A primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as H8071 (by insertion of א) through the idea of wrapping up); properly dark (as enveloped), that is, the north; hence (by orientation) the left hand:—left (hand, side).

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#8040.
שְׂמאֹול
semovl or
[or] שְׂמאֹל
semol (969d); of unc. der.; the left:—
NASB - left(40), left hand(10), left side(1), north(3).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - left 36, left hand 17, left side 1; 54

hand
Genesis 13:9; 14:15; 48:13, 13, 14. Joshua 19:27. 2 Kings 23:8. 1 Chronicles 6:44. Nehemiah 8:4. Job 23:9. Proverbs 3:16. Song of Songs 2:6; 8:3. Isaiah 9:20. Ezekiel 16:46. Daniel 12:7. Jonah 4:11.

left
Genesis 24:49. Exodus 14:22, 29. Numbers 20:17; 22:26. Deuteronomy 2:27; 5:32; 17:11, 20; 28:14. Joshua 1:7; 23:6. Judges 3:21; 7:20; 16:29. 1 Samuel 6:12. 2 Samuel 2:19, 21; 16:6. 1 Kings 7:39, 49; 22:19. 2 Kings 22:2. 2 Chronicles 3:17; 4:6, 7, 8; 18:18; 34:2. Proverbs 4:27. Ecclesiastes 10:2. Isaiah 54:3. Ezekiel 39:3. Zechariah 4:3, 11; 12:6.

side
Ezekiel 1:10.