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348exact KJV occurrences 274Old Testament 74New Testament 42books containing the word 34mapped Strong's IDs 306occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 11:8

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 10:2

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where left appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH3498
יָתַר

yâthar · yaw-thar'

46 times translated as this KJV form107 total Strong's occurrences

v

to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively to leave, cause to abound, preserve

Strong's KJV usage: excel, leave (a remnant), left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, -nant), reserve, residue, rest.

Strong's first: Genesis 32:24Strong's last: Zechariah 14:16

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HebrewH8040
שְׂמֹאול

sᵉmôʼwl · sem-ole'

36 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

Strong's KJV usage: left (hand, side).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 24:49Strong's last: Zechariah 12:6

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HebrewH3240
יָנַח

yânach · yaw-nakh'

11 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences

v

to deposit; by implication, to allow to stay

Strong's KJV usage: bestow, cast down, lay (down, up), leave (off), let alone (remain), pacify, place, put, set (down), suffer, withdraw, withhold. (The Hiphil forms with the dagesh are here referred to, in accordance with the older grammarians; but if any distinction of the kind is to be made, these should rather be referred to 5117, and the others here.)

Strong's first: Joshua 6:23Strong's last: Ezekiel 41:11

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HebrewH5203
נָטַשׁ

nâṭash · naw-tash'

7 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 10:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 31:12

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HebrewH8041
שָׂמַאל

sâmaʼl · saw-mal'

5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences

v

to use the left hand or pass in that direction

Strong's KJV usage: (go, turn) (on the, to the) left.

Strong's first: Genesis 13:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:16

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GreekG620
ἀπολείπω

apoleípō · ap-ol-ipe'-o

3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

to leave behind (passively, remain); by implication, to forsake

Strong's KJV usage: :--leave, remain.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Timothy 4:13Strong's last: Jude 1:6

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HebrewH3499
יֶתֶר

yether · yeh'-ther

3 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free)

Strong's KJV usage: abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.

Strong's first: Joel 1:4Strong's last: Joel 1:4

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HebrewH3615
כָּלָה

kâlâh · kaw-law'

2 times translated as this KJV form207 total Strong's occurrences

v

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

Strong's first: Genesis 18:33Strong's last: Genesis 44:12

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HebrewH4672
מָצָא

mâtsâʼ · maw-tsaw'

2 times translated as this KJV form455 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present

Strong's KJV usage: be able, befall, being, catch, × certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), × have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), × occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.

Strong's first: 2 Kings 19:4Strong's last: Isaiah 37:4

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HebrewH5975
עָמַד

ʻâmad · aw-mad'

2 times translated as this KJV form520 total Strong's occurrences

v

to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)

Strong's KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.

Strong's first: Genesis 29:35Strong's last: Genesis 30:9

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GreekG4052
περισσεύω

perisseúō · per-is-syoo'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences

to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel

Strong's KJV usage: :--(make, more) abound, (have, have more) abundance (be more) abundant, be the better, enough and to spare, exceed, excel, increase, be left, redound, remain (over and above).

Strong's first: Matthew 15:37Strong's last: Matthew 15:37

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GreekG5275
ὑπολείπω

hypoleípō · hoop-ol-i'-po

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to leave under (behind), i.e. (passively) to remain (survive)

Strong's KJV usage: :--be left.

Strong's first: Romans 11:3Strong's last: Romans 11:3

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HebrewH3885
לוּן

lûwn · loon

1 times translated as this KJV form85 total Strong's occurrences

v

to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain)

Strong's KJV usage: abide (all night), continue, dwell, endure, grudge, be left, lie all night, (cause to) lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), (make to) murmur, remain, tarry (all night, that night).

Strong's first: Exodus 34:25Strong's last: Exodus 34:25

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HebrewH5414
נָתַן

nâthan · naw-than'

1 times translated as this KJV form2,007 total Strong's occurrences

v

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 40:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 40:11

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HebrewH5493
סוּר

çûwr · soor

1 times translated as this KJV form308 total Strong's occurrences

v

to turn off (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.

Strong's first: Joshua 11:15Strong's last: Joshua 11:15

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HebrewH7673
שָׁבַת

shâbath · shaw-bath'

1 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences

v

to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)

Strong's KJV usage: (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.

Strong's first: Ruth 4:14Strong's last: Ruth 4:14

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HebrewH7760
שׂוּם

sûwm · soom

1 times translated as this KJV form583 total Strong's occurrences

v

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.

Strong's first: 2 Samuel 14:7Strong's last: 2 Samuel 14:7

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HebrewH7971
שָׁלַח

shâlach · shaw-lakh'

1 times translated as this KJV form851 total Strong's occurrences

v

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).

Strong's first: Proverbs 29:15Strong's last: Proverbs 29:15

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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348 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Joshua 22:3
H5800

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.

Joshua 23:6
H8040

Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

Judges 2:21
H5800

I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Judges 2:23
H3240

Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

Judges 3:1
H3240

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3:21
H8040

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

Judges 4:16
H7604

But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

Judges 6:4
H7604

And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

Judges 7:20
H8040

And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

Judges 8:10
H3498

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

Judges 9:5
H3498

And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

Judges 16:29
H8040

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

Ruth 1:3
H7604

And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Ruth 1:5
H7604

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

Ruth 1:18
H2308

When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

Ruth 2:11
H5800

And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

Ruth 2:14
H3498

And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.

Ruth 2:20
no direct Strong's tag

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

Ruth 4:14
H7673

And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

1 Samuel 2:36
H3498

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

1 Samuel 5:4
H7604

And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

1 Samuel 6:12
H8040

And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

1 Samuel 9:24
H7604

And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 10:2
H5203

When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

1 Samuel 11:11
H7604

And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

left

LEFT, preterit tense and participle passive of leave.

LEFT, adjective [Latin lavus; Gr. probably from the root of leave, Gr. and properly weak, deficient. Applied to the hand or arm, it denotes the weak arm, as opposed to the right, the strong or dextrous. Hence the ancient idea of sinister, unfortunate, attached to the left arm or side.]

1. Denoting the part opposed to the right of the body; as the left hand, arm or side. Hence, the noun being omitted, we say, on the left that is, on the left side or wing, as of an army.

2. The left bank of a river, is that which is on the left hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of the river.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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