שְׂמֹאול sᵉmôʼwl (H8040)

properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand

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

or שְׂמֹאל; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as שִׂמְלָה (H8071) (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up);