WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
left hand n 1: the hand that is on the left side of the body; "jab with your left" [syn: left, left hand]Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Left hand among the Hebrews, denoted the north (Job 23:9; Gen. 14:15), the face of the person being supposed to be toward the east.