tsad denotes a side or flank, whether of an object, place, person, or body.

The term most often marks a side of an object, structure, landscape, or position beside something else; it also names a person’s bodily side or flank, including the side on which someone lies, is carried, struck, or threatened.

1. Side of an object, place, or adjacent position · dominant

   Construct forms locate something at or on a side: in Genesis 6:16 the APB renders the ark’s door as being “in its side,” while Exodus 25:32 describes branches coming from opposite sides of the lampstand. The same spatial relation appears when a book is placed beside the ark in Deuteronomy 31:26, when Saul and David move on opposite sides of a mountain in 1 Samuel 23:26, and when Ruth sits beside the reapers in Ruth 2:14.

   Genesis 6:16Exodus 25:32Deuteronomy 31:261 Samuel 23:26Ruth 2:14Joshua 3:16
2. Bodily side or flank · common

   The term identifies a bodily side in scenes of posture, contact, and injury. In Ezekiel 4:4 the APB renders lying on the “left side,” and Ezekiel 4:8 contrasts turning from one side to the other; 2 Samuel 2:16 places each man’s sword in his neighbor’s side. It also occurs with an attacking flank in Ezekiel 34:21 and with threats described as thorns in the sides in Numbers 33:55.

   Ezekiel 4:4Ezekiel 4:82 Samuel 2:16Ezekiel 34:21Numbers 33:55Psalm 91:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “side” or “sides,” and in spatial clauses also uses “beside” and “opposite.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those English choices indicate the clause’s spatial or bodily setting rather than fixed renderings in every instance.