יָמִין
right hand
also: right, right side fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3225 appears in the Book of Psalms — 39 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
- Psalms 16:8 מִֽ֝/ימִינִ֗/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Psalms 16:11 בִּ/ימִינְ/ךָ֣ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
- Psalms 17:7 בִּֽ/ימִינֶֽ/ךָ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Show your marvelous loving kindness, You who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
- Psalms 18:35 וִֽ/ימִינְ/ךָ֥ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
- Psalms 20:6 יְמִינֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand.
- Psalms 21:8 יְ֝מִֽינְ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- Psalms 26:10 וִֽ֝/ימִינָ֗/ם conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp In whose hands is wickedness, Their right hand is full of bribes.
- Psalms 44:3 יְמִֽינְ/ךָ֣ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, Because you were favorable to them.
- Psalms 45:4 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
- Psalms 45:9 לִֽ֝/ימִינְ/ךָ֗ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
- Psalms 48:10 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms As is your name, God, So is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Psalms 60:5 יְמִֽינְ/ךָ֣ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms So that your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Psalms 63:8 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
- Psalms 73:23 יְמִינִֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
- Psalms 74:11 וִֽ/ימִינֶ֑/ךָ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
- Psalms 77:10 יְמִ֣ין n c fs cs Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: The years of the right hand of the Most High."
- Psalms 78:54 יְמִינֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
- Psalms 80:15 יְמִינֶ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms The stock which your right hand planted, The branch that you made strong for yourself.
- Psalms 80:17 יְמִינֶ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, On the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
- Psalms 89:12 וְ֭/יָמִין conj + n c fs The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- Psalms 89:13 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
- Psalms 89:25 יְמִינֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.
- Psalms 89:42 יְמִ֣ין n c fs cs You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
- Psalms 91:7 מִ/ימִינֶ֑/ךָ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it will not come near you.
- Psalms 98:1 יְ֝מִינ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Sing to Yahweh a new song, For he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
- Psalms 108:6 יְמִֽינְ/ךָ֣ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms That your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Psalms 109:6 יְמִינֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- Psalms 109:31 לִ/ימִ֣ין prep + n c fs cs For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.
- Psalms 110:1 לִֽ/ימִינִ֑/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
- Psalms 110:5 יְמִֽינְ/ךָ֑ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
- Psalms 118:15 יְמִ֥ין n c fs cs The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
- Psalms 118:16 יְמִ֣ין יְמִ֥ין n c fs cs n c fs cs The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!"
- Psalms 121:5 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
- Psalms 137:5 יְמִינִֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs If I forget you, Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill.
- Psalms 138:7 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
- Psalms 139:10 יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Even there your hand will lead me, And your right hand will hold me.
- Psalms 142:4 יָמִ֨ין n c fs Look on my right, and see; For there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
- Psalms 144:8 וִֽ֝/ימִינָ֗/ם יְמִ֣ין conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs cs Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Psalms 144:11 וִֽ֝/ימִינָ֗/ם יְמִ֣ין conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs cs Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ימין (yâmîyn) means “right hand.” Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “right” and “right side”. It turns up in 134 verses across 27 books, a common footprint. The word gravitates to Psalms (29%), then Isaiah and Judges. It first appears in Genesis 13:9. Dig into 134-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3225 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 134
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 134 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #318
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 318 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 134 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 134 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 60 verses · 45%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 49 verses · 37%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 25 verses · 19%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Right hand 87×, Right 21×, Right side 5×
- American Standard Version†: Right hand 73×, Right 19×, Right side 5×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Right hand 54×, Right 48×, South 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Right 59×, Right hand 54×, Right hand of 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3225 across 137† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3225 across 133† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 28 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3225 across 133† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3225 across 146† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
12 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 12 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
ימין I
- 1. right hand:
- a. lit. of man, often opp. שׂמֹאול Gn 48:13, 14 (cf. v 18), Dn 12:7; יָדַע בֵּין־יְמִינוֹ לִשְׂמֹאלוֹ Jon 4:11 distinguish between one’s right hand and one’s left; שׁלח ימין Ju 5:26 (‖ יד); as holding the lot Ez 21:27; also of right hand as skilful ψ 137:5; as receiving bribes 26:10 (‖ יָדַיִם); used in false swearing יְמִינָם יְמִין שֶׁקֶר 144:8, 11 their right hand is a right hand of falsehood; often also c. יַד, יַד־יִמִינוֹ Gn 48:17 (E) hand of his right = his right hand Ju 7:20 2 S 20:9; אִטֵּר יַד־יְמִינוֹ Ju 3:15; 20:16 bound as to one’s right hand, i.e. left-handed. e.g. Genesis 48:13
- b. fig., of right hand as held by י׳ Is 41:10, 13; 45:1; so יַד־ימיני ψ 73:23. e.g. Isaiah 41:10
- c. right hand of י׳, as instr. of delivering Israel Ex 15:6(×2), 12 +, cf. בִּגְבוּרוֹת יֵשַׁע יְמִינוֹ ψ 20:7; שְׁנוֹת יְמִין עֶלְיוֹן 77:11, ‖ זְרוֹעַ 98:1; as acquiring the temple-site 78:54; as holding his servant 18:36 (line om. in ‖ 2 S 22:36), cf. 63:9 & בִּימִין צִדְקִי Is 41:10; as finding, lighting upon (מצא) his enemies ψ 21:9 (‖ יד); as full of צֶדֶק 48:11; as dispensing blessings 16:11 נעמות בימינך (cf. Pr 3:16 of wisdom, personified); used in divine oath Is 62:8 (‖ זְרוֹעַ). e.g. Exodus 15:6
- 2. of situation on, or direction toward, the right:
- a. of situation, c. מִן, מִימִינָם וּמִשְּׂמֹאלָם Ex 14:22, 29 a wall on their right hand and on their left hand; similarly 2 S 16:6; 1 K 7:39, 49 = 2 Ch 3:17; 4:6, 1 K 22:19 (= 2 Ch 18:18 c. על), 2 Ch 4:7, 8 ψ 91:7 (‖ מִצִּדְּךָ); for protection 16:8; מימין ל 2 K 23:13; Ez 10:3; c. לְ, וַתֵּשֶׁב לִימִינוֹ 1 K 2:19, so ψ 110:1; 45:10; 109:31; c. עַל־ Zc 3:1; 1 Ch 6:24; 2 Ch 18:18 (= 1 K 22:19 c. מן), Ne 8:4 Jb 30:12; ψ 109:6 cf. 110:5; without prep. יְמִין הָעִיר 2 S 24:5; Jb 23:9. e.g. Exodus 14:22
- b. of direction toward, lit. נָטָה ימין Nu 20:17; 22:26 (both JE); סוּר ימין Dt 2:27; 1 S 6:12; פָּרַץ ימין ושׂ׳ Is 54:3; also (vb. הִפָּרֶד in prev. cl.) Gn 13:9; הַבֵּיט ימין ψ 142:5, and looking is implied also in Ez 1:10 (c. אֶל־; opp. מֵהַשְּׂמֹאול); c. עַל, נטה (לָלֶכֶת) על הַיָּמִין 2 S 2:19, 21; פנה על־ימין Gn 24:49; sq. אֶל, of course (הלך) of boundary Jos 17:1; c. לְ, לַיָּמִין מֵעַל לַחוֹמָה Ne 12:31 (vb. om., went) to the right above the wall; fig. of moral deviation, סוּר מִן־הַדָּבָר … יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאול Dt 17:11, so 5:29; 17:20; 28:14; Jos 1:7; 23:6; 2 K 22:2 = 2 Ch 34:2; נטה ימין ושׂ׳ Pr 4:27; also (very late) of the right as morally good, לֵב חָכָם לִימִינוֹ (opp. שׂמאל) Ec 10:2 De Reuss Now. e.g. Numbers 20:17
- 3. of other parts of the body, besides hand (v. יַד־ימינו etc. supr.): right thigh יֶרֶךְ יְמִינוֹ Ju 3:16, 24; eye עֵין יָמִין 1 S 11:2; עין ימינו Zc 11:17(×2) especially שׁוֹק הַיָּמִין i.e. the right (upper) leg of sacrificial animal Ex 29:22; Lv 7:32, 33; 8:25, 26; 9:21; Nu 18:18. e.g. Judges 3:16
- 4. = south, because when facing east the right hand is toward the south: מִימִין הַיְשִׁימוֹן 1 S 23:19; אֶל־יְמִין v 24; ישׁב מִימִינֵךְ Ez 16:46 (‖ על־שׂמאולך); צָפוֹן וְיָמִין ψ 89:13; also perhaps 2 S 24:5; 2 K 23:13 ψ 107:3, v. יָם 9. e.g. 1 Samuel 23:19
ימין II
- 1. son of Simeon Gn 46:10; Ex 6:15; Nu 26:12; 1 Ch 4:24. e.g. Genesis 46:10
- 2. man of Judah 1 Ch 2:27. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:27
- 3. Levite (?) name, time of Ezra Ne 8:7. e.g. Nehemiah 8:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Ex 15:6 (Pr 27:16 no except, v. Now Str) right hand (NH id.; SI3 מימן on the right; Aramaic יַמִּינָא, ܝܰܡܺܝܢܳܐ; Arabic يَمِينٌ right, right side, right hand, south; Ethiopic የማን right hand, ይምን right side; Sab. ימן right hand, ימנת south, are also quoted; Assyrian imnu, right, right side, on the right, DlHWB 307)—abs. יָמִין Gn 13:9 + 40 times; cstr. יְמִין 1 S 23:24 + 19 times; sf. יְמִינִי Je 22:24 + 6 times, etc.; always sg.:—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ימן (yâman) (H3231) — to choose right.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָמִין
- (sub. יַד) f.(b. h.; v. אָמַן) [firm,] right hand. Men. 37ᵃ מה כתיבה בִּי׳ as the writing is done with the right hand, so is the binding to be done with the right hand (on the left). Ib. אטר … בִּימִינוֹ וכ׳ a left-handed man ties the T’fillin on his right hand, because this is his left (weak) hand. Lam. R. to II, 3 (ref. to קץ הימין, Dan. XII, 13) קץ נתתי לִימִינִי וכ׳ I have fixed a term to (the servitude of) my right hand (power); when I redeem my children, I vindicate my right hand. Zeb. 62ᵇ, a. fr. דרך י׳ towards the right; a. fr.—Denom. יְמָנִי, f. יְמָנִית. e.g. Daniel 12:13
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 76 distinct written forms H3225 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 16 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3225, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 127 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 134 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 13:9
- Exodus 14:22
- Leviticus 7:32
- Numbers 18:18
- Deuteronomy 2:27
- Joshua 1:7
- Judges 3:15
- 1 Samuel 6:12
- 2 Samuel 2:19
- 1 Kings 2:19
- 2 Kings 12:9
- 1 Chronicles 6:39
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
