UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ἀριστερός; -ά, -όν

Sense 1: left, left side

Semantic entry: 82.7

Semantic domains: Spacial Orientations

Subdomains: Left, Right, Straight Ahead, Opposite

Definition: pertaining to being to the left of some point of reference

Notes: In RV CO2 6:7 · LV CO2 6:7 · Read together CO2 6:7 the phrase ὅπλον ἀριστερόν, literally ‘left-hand weapon,’ refers to a weapon used by the left hand and therefore a defensive weapon, while ὅπλον δεξιόν, literally ‘weapon for the right hand,’ refers to an offensive weapon.|For an interpretation of ἀριστερός as part of an idiom in RV MRK 10:37 · LV MRK 10:37 · Read together MRK 10:37, see 87.35: ἐκ.

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,

MRK 10:37: RV MRK 10:37 · LV MRK 10:37 · Read together MRK 10:37

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OET-RV MRK 10:37

37 They answered, “Allow us two to sit beside you in heaven—one of us on each side of you.”

OET-LV MRK 10:37

37 And they said to _him:
Give to _us, that we _may _sit _down in with _the glory of _you, one on the_right and one on the_left of _you.

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

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

MRK: RV MRK 10:37 · LV MRK 10:37 · Read together MRK 10:37

LUK: RV LUK 23:33 · LV LUK 23:33 · Read together LUK 23:33

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

Sense 2: left hand

Semantic entry: 8.33

Semantic domains: Body, Body Parts, and Body Products

Subdomains: Parts of the Body

Notes: The left hand is designated in a number of languages by an idiomatic phrase which normally contrasts with expressions for the right hand. For example, one may often speak of the left hand as ‘the bad hand’ or ‘the weak hand,’ and in some instances as ‘the anus hand,’ since this is the hand used in cleansing the body after defecation. See also 8.32: δεξιός.

Forms: ἀριστερά; (ᾶς; f)

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,

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

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OET-RV CO2 6:7

7 in truthful speech and in the power of God. Hold the weapons of righteousness in both your right and left hands

OET-LV CO2 6:7

7 in the_message of _truth, in the_power of_god, through the weapons of_ the _righteousness of _the right and the_left,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀριστερός

Form 1

Sense 1: left, left side

Sense 2: left hand