at the side of anyone) and the Romans ab ( sedere a dextra alicuis, proximum esse ab aliquo), because they define the position of one standing or sitting next another by proceeding from the one next to whom he is said to stand or sit (cf. As in this expression the Greeks use the preposition ἐκ, so the Hebrews sometimes use מִן ( מִימִין from i. Winer's Grammar, 214 (201)): Acts 2:33 Acts 5:31 τά ὅπλα τά δεξιά, arms carried in the right hand and used for attack, as the sword, the spear, καί ἀριστερά those carried in the left hand, for the purpose of defense, as the shield: 2 Corinthians 6:7 τά δεξιά μέρη τοῦ πλοίου, John 21:6. e., according to Hebrew idiom, by his own power (cf. 566 and 599 and in secular authors as Xenophon, an. Revelation 5:7 and Revelation 20:1) διδόναι τήν δεξιάν or τάς δεξιᾶς, to pledge either a mutual friendship, or a compact, by joining the right hands: Galatians 2:9 (1 Macc. e.) at the right side, Revelation 5:1 (but others take it more closely, in the right hand cf.
Δεξιός, δεξιά, δεξιόν (from δέχομαι, future δέξομαι, or from δέκω, which is akin to δείκνυμι properly, of that hand which is accustomed to take told of as well as to point out just as ἄξιος comes from ἄξω, future of ἄγω (cf.