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Notes: The expression in RV MAT 6:3 · LV MAT 6:3 · Read together MAT 6:3 is idiomatic and means not letting others know about the good which one does (see 28.74: μή). The right hand is often spoken of idiomatically as ‘the good hand’ or ‘the strong hand.’ Sometimes it is called ‘the mouth hand,’ that is to say, the hand which one uses in eating.|For δεξιά in the idiom δεξιὰς δίδωμι ‘to give the right hand’ (RV GAL 2:9 · LV GAL 2:9 · Read together GAL 2:9), see 34.42: δεξιός / 34.42: δίδωμι.

Collocations: δεξιά

MAT 6:3: RV MAT 6:3 · LV MAT 6:3 · Read together MAT 6:3

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OET-RV MAT 6:3

3 But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

OET-LV MAT 6:3

3 But of _you doing alms, not let _know the left hand of _you what the right hand of _you is _doing,

MAT 27:29: RV MAT 27:29 · LV MAT 27:29 · Read together MAT 27:29

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OET-RV MAT 27:29

29 They twisted together a crown made of strips of thorns and plonked it on his head and made him hold a reed as a staff. Then they knelt down in front of him and mocked him, saying, “Greetings, your majesty, King of the Yehudim (Jews).”

OET-LV MAT 27:29

29 and having _twisted _together a_crown of thorns, they _put _on it on the head of _him, and a_staff in the right hand of _him, and having _knelt before him, they _mocked at _him saying:
Greetings, the king of _the Youdaiōns.

All 9 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 6:3 · RV MAT 27:29 · LV MAT 6:3 · LV MAT 27:29 · Read together MAT 6:3 · Read together MAT 27:29

CO2: RV CO2 6:7 · LV CO2 6:7 · Read together CO2 6:7

GAL: RV GAL 2:9 · LV GAL 2:9 · Read together GAL 2:9

REV: RV REV 1:17 · RV REV 1:20 · RV REV 2:1 · RV REV 5:1 · RV REV 5:7 · LV REV 1:17 · LV REV 1:20 · LV REV 2:1 · LV REV 5:1 · LV REV 5:7 · Read together REV 1:17 · Read together REV 1:20 · Read together REV 2:1 · Read together REV 5:1 · Read together REV 5:7

Sense 3: power

Semantic entry: 76.4

Semantic domains: Power, Force

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of δεξιός [source selector 000001][b] ‘right hand,’ 8.32: δεξιός) power, with the added implication of authority

Collocations: δεξιά

ACT 2:33: RV ACT 2:33 · LV ACT 2:33 · Read together ACT 2:33

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OET-RV ACT 2:33

33 Now he’s sitting at God’s right hand, and having received the promise of the holy spirit from the father, he poured this out which you’re all seeing and hearing today.

OET-LV ACT 2:33

33 Therefore having _been _exalted by _the right hand of_ the _god, and having _received the promise of _the the holy spirit, from the father, he _poured_ this _out which you _all are _seeing and are _hearing.

Sense 4: to make a covenant, to make an agreement

Semantic entry: 34.42

Semantic domains: Association

Subdomains: Establish or Confirm a Relation

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to give right hands) to acknowledge an agreement establishing some relation, normally involving the actual practice of shaking hands

Collocations: δεξιὰς δίδωμι

GAL 2:9: RV GAL 2:9 · LV GAL 2:9 · Read together GAL 2:9

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OET-RV GAL 2:9

9 So, seeing the grace that God had shown towards me, Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos) and Kefa and Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes), the apparent pillars of the assemblies, accepted me and Barnabas as equals, so that we could go to the non-Jews and them to the Yehudim.

OET-LV GAL 2:9

9 and having _known the grace which having _been _given to _me, Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) and Kaʸfas, and Yōannaʸs, the ones supposing to _be pillars, they _gave to _me and Barnabas the_right hands of _fellowship, in _order _that we may _go to the pagans, and they to the circumcision,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

δεξιός

Form 1

Sense 1: right, right side

Sense 2: right hand

Sense 3: power

Sense 4: to make a covenant, to make an agreement