Words the Bible translates as east
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- anatolēἀνατολήeast: the quarter of the world where the sun comes up, and the lands lying that way
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- a rising: the moment a star or the sun climbs into view, and the light that comes up with it
- qedemקֶדֶםeast, or what lies in front: the direction of the sunrise, the eastern side of a place, and the lands and peoples that way
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- ancient time: the remote past, the days of old, the earliest times reaching back to the world's beginning
- mizraḥמִזְרָחeast: the direction of the sunrise, and the eastern side or region it names
- qadimקָדִיםthe east wind: the hot, dry, violent wind that blows in off the desert and withers or destroys whatever it touches
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- the east: the eastern direction, side, or border of a place
- qadmoniקַדְמֹנִיeastern: on the side toward the sunrise, used above all of the east gate and of the eastern sea
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- former or ancient: belonging to the distant past, and so also the people who lived long ago
- qidmahקִדְמָהeastnot studied yet
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