Topical Bible: East

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The term "East" in the Bible often carries both geographical and symbolic significance. It is used to describe a direction, a region, and sometimes a spiritual or metaphorical concept. The East is frequently mentioned in the context of the ancient Near Eastern world, which includes the lands of Mesopotamia, Persia, and beyond.

Geographical Significance:

1. Direction and Orientation: In biblical times, the East was considered the primary direction for orientation. The Hebrew word for East, "qedem," also means "front" or "before," indicating its importance in ancient navigation and mapping. The East is often associated with the rising of the sun, symbolizing beginnings and new opportunities.

2. Lands and Peoples: The East is home to several significant biblical lands and peoples. For instance, the "people of the East" often refers to the nomadic tribes and nations such as the Midianites and the Ishmaelites (Judges 6:3). The wise men, or Magi, who visited Jesus after His birth, came from the East, indicating a region known for wisdom and learning (Matthew 2:1).

3. Eden and Exile: The Garden of Eden is described as being planted "in the east" (Genesis 2:8). After the fall, Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden, and cherubim were placed "on the east side of the Garden of Eden" to guard the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:24). This positioning underscores the East as a place of both origin and separation.

Symbolic and Theological Significance:

1. Divine Judgment and Blessing: The East wind is often associated with God's judgment. For example, the Lord used an east wind to bring the plague of locusts upon Egypt (Exodus 10:13) and to part the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21). Conversely, the East can also symbolize divine blessing, as seen in the gifts brought by the Magi from the East to honor the newborn King (Matthew 2:11).

2. Spiritual Renewal and Hope: The East is sometimes seen as a symbol of hope and renewal. The prophet Ezekiel describes a vision of the glory of the Lord coming from the East (Ezekiel 43:2), signifying the return of God's presence to the temple and the restoration of Israel.

3. Prophetic Imagery: In eschatological contexts, the East holds prophetic significance. Jesus speaks of His return as being like lightning that comes from the East and is visible even in the West (Matthew 24:27), emphasizing the sudden and unmistakable nature of His second coming.

Cultural and Historical Context:

In the ancient Near East, the East was often associated with wisdom, mystery, and the unknown. The journey of the Magi from the East to worship Jesus highlights the recognition of Christ's kingship beyond the borders of Israel, symbolizing the universal reach of the Gospel.

Overall, the concept of the East in the Bible is rich with meaning, encompassing geographical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. It serves as a reminder of God's sovereignty over all directions and peoples, and His ability to use the East as a source of both judgment and blessing.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

East

The Hebrew term kedem properly means that which is before or in front of a person, and was applied to the east form the custom of turning in that direction when describing the points of the compass, before, behind, the right and the left representing respectively east, west, south and north. (Job 23:8,9) The term as generally used refers to the lands lying immediately eastward of Palestine, viz., Arabia, Mesopotamia and Babylonia; on the other hand mizrach is used of the far east with a less definite signification. (Isaiah 42:2,25; 43:5; 46:11)

ATS Bible Dictionary

East

The Hebrews, in speaking of the different quarters of the heaven, always suppose the face to be turned towards the east. Hence "before," or "forwards," means the east; "behind" is the west; the right-hand is south, and the left hand, north. Besides the ordinary meanings of the word east, Joshua 4:19; Psalm 103:12, the Jews often used it to designate a large region lying northeast and southeast of Palestine, including Syria and Arabia near at hand, and Babylonia, Assyria, Armenia, etc., with the whole region from the Caspian sea to the Arabian gulf, Genesis 29:1; Numbers 23:7; Jud 6:3; 7:12; 8:10. The wise men who visited the infant Savior dwelt somewhere in this region; and being "in the east," saw his star-not east of them, but in the direction to guide them to Jerusalem, Matthew 2:1,2.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The orient (mizrah); the rising of the sun. Thus "the east country" is the country lying to the east of Syria, the Elymais (Zechariah 8:7).

(2). Properly what is in front of one, or a country that is before or in front of another; the rendering of the word kedem. In pointing out the quarters, a Hebrew always looked with his face toward the east. The word kedem is used when the four quarters of the world are described (Genesis 13:14; 28:14); and mizrah when the east only is distinguished from the west (Joshua 11:3; Psalm 50:1; 103:12, etc.). In Genesis 25:6 "eastward" is literally "unto the land of kedem;" i.e., the lands lying east of Palestine, namely, Arabia, Mesopotamia, etc.

East, Children of the

The Arabs as a whole, known as the Nabateans or Kedarenes, nomad tribes (Judges 6:3, 33; 7:12; 8:10).

East gate

(Jeremiah 19:2), properly the Potter's gate, the gate which led to the potter's field, in the valley of Hinnom.

East sea

(Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18), the Dead Sea, which lay on the east side of the Holy Land. The Mediterranean, which lay on the west, was hence called the "great sea for the west border" (Numbers 34:6).

East wind

The wind coming from the east (Job 27:21; Isaiah 27:8, etc.). Blight caused by this wind, "thin ears" (Genesis 41:6); the withered "gourd" (Jonah 4:8). It was the cause and also the emblem of evil (Ezek. 17:10; 19:12; Hosea 13:15). In Palestine this wind blows from a burning desert, and hence is destitute of moisture necessary for vegetation.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.

2. (n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.

3. (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.

4. (a.) Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.

5. (adv.) Eastward.

6. (v. i.) To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CHILDREN OF THE EAST

est (bene qedhem): A term which in a general way designated the inhabitants of the country East of Palestine The Hebrews thought of their own country as occupying the central place, and of the other parts of the world in relation to this. They spoke of the "queen of the south" (Matthew 12:42), and of the "king of the south" (Daniel 11:5, 6). They spoke of people coming from "the east and the west" and sitting down with the patriarchs (Matthew 8:11).

The term "children of the east" seems to have been applied to the inhabitants of any part of the country East of Palestine It is stated that Jacob, when he fled from Esau, "came to the land of the children of the east" (Genesis 29:1), and the place to which he came was Haran in Mesopotamia. In Jeremiah 49:28 the inhabitants of Kedar are called "the children of the east," and in later Jewish literature, Kedar is identified with the Arabs (see KEDAR). Job was designated as "the greatest of all the children of the east" (Job 1:3), and the land of Uz was mentioned as his home (Job 1:1). While it is impossible absolutely to locate the land of Uz, it must have been on the edge of the desert which was East of Palestine. The children of the east seem to have been famous for their wisdom. It is said that "Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east" (1 Kings 4:30), and "Wise-men from the east" came to Jerusalem seeking the one that was born king of the Jews (Matthew 2:1).

Many of the inhabitants of the east country were regarded as descending from Abraham (see Genesis 25:6), and hence, they were related to Israel.

A. W. Fortune

EAST (EASTERN), SEA

es'-tern (Zechariah 14:8).

See DEAD SEA.

EAST COUNTRY

kun'-tri ('erets mizrach):

Lit. "country of the sunrise" over against the "country of the sunset" (Zechariah 8:7). The two together form a poetical expression indicating the whole earth.

EAST, CHILDREN OF THE

est, (mizrach, qedhem, qedhem, and other derivatives of the same root; anatole):

Mizrach is the equivalent of the Arabic meshriq, "the orient" or "place of sunrise." In the same way ma`arabh, "west," corresponds to the Arabic maghrib, and both mizrach and ma`arabh occur in Psalm 103:12: "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." Qadham, "to precede" (whence qedhem, "east"), and its derivatives correspond closely to the Arabic qadham, except that the Arabic derivatives do not include the signification "east." In the majority of cases "east" and other words of direction require no explanation, but the expressions "the children of the east" (bene qedhem), "the land of the children of the east" ('erets bene qedhem), and "the east country" ('erets qedhem), belong to a different category. In the story of Gideon (Judges 6:3, 13; Judges 7:12; Judges 8:10), we find several times the expression "the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east." In Judges 8:24 it is said of the same host: "For they Go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. Their tents and had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites." In Jeremiah 49:28, 29: "Go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. Their tents and their flocks shall they take." In Genesis 25:6: "But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country." Now Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar, Midian of Abraham and Keturah, Kedar the son of Ishmael, and Amalek the grandson of Esau, dwelling in Edom. It is evident that we have to do with the Syrian desert and in a general way with Arabia, especially its northern part, and with peoples like the modern Bedouin who kept camels and dwelt in tents, 'houses of hair' (buyut sha`r), as they are called by the Arabs of today.

A striking passage is Genesis 29:1: "Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east." As one journeys eastward through the country East of the Jordan he traverses first a region of towns and villages with fields of grain, and then the wide desert where the Bedouin wander with their herds. The line is a sharp one. Within a very few hours he passes from the settled part where the rain, though scanty, is sufficient to bring the grain to maturity, to the bare desert.

Job was "the greatest of all the children of the east" (Job 1:3). These desert people had a name for wisdom as we see from 1 Kings 4:30, "Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt"; and from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born. Wisemen from the east came."

Alfred Ely Day

GATE, EAST

The expressions are found in Ezekiel: "Even the gate that looketh toward the east" (43:1); "The gate whose prospect is toward the east" (43:4); but the idea of a gate on the eastern side as the principal entrance to the court of the sanctuary goes back to the days of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:13-16). In addition to its use as admitting to the sanctuary enclosure, it may be presumed, in analogy with the general mode of the administration of justice, to have been the place where in earlier times cases were tried which were referred to the jurisdiction of the sanctuary (compare Exodus 18:19-22 Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19:16, 18 Numbers 27:2, 3, etc.).

1. The Tabernacle:

In Exodus 27:13-16 the "gate" by which the congregation entered the tabernacle is carefully described. An embroidered screen of the three sacred colors (blue, purple and scarlet), 20 cubits in width, hung from 4 pillars (really 5 pillars, 5 cubits apart; on the reckoning see TABERNACLE), in the center of the East side of the tabernacle court. This is further alluded to in Numbers 4:26, "the screen for the door of the gate of the court."

2. Solomon's Temple:

Nothing is said of the position of gates in connection with Solomon's temple, but there was an "inner" (1 Kings 6:36), and also an "outer" or "great" court (2 Chronicles 4:9), the latter with doors overlaid with brass, and analogy makes it certain that here also the chief gate (inner or outer court? see COURT) was on the East side. Provision was made by Solomon in his adjoining palace for the administration of justice in a hall or "porch of judgment" (1 Kings 7:7), but graver cases were still, apparently, referred for decision to the sanctuary (Jeremiah 26:10). The trial in Jeremiah's case, however, took place, not at the East gate, but at "the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house" (Jeremiah 26:10; compare 36:10), probably Jotham's "upper gate" (2 Kings 15:35).

3. Ezekiel's Temple:

In Ezekiel's ideal temple, "the gate whose prospect was toward the east" was that by which the glory of Yahweh went up from the city (Ezekiel 11:23), and by which the prophet in vision saw it return (Ezekiel 43:4).

4. Second Temple:

Nothing is told of an East gate in the temple of Zerubbabel, but it may be assumed that there was one as in the other cases.

5. Herod's Temple:

The great East gate of the Herodian temple, which followed those above mentioned, was that "Beautiful Gate of the temple" where the miracle of the healing of the lame man was performed (Acts 3:1-10).

See GATE, THE BEAUTIFUL; HARSITH; SHECANIAH.

W. Shaw Caldecott

STAR IN THE EAST

See STAR OF THE MAGI; MAGI.

EAST GATE

See GATE, EAST.

EAST WIND

See WIND.

Greek

1179. Dekapolis -- Decapolis, a region East of the Jordan
... Decapolis, a region East of the Jordan. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
Dekapolis Phonetic Spelling: (dek-ap'-ol-is) Short Definition: Decapolis ...
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2954. Kupros -- Cyprus, an island at the east end of the ...
... Cyprus, an island at the east end of the Mediterranean Sea. Part of Speech: Noun,
Feminine Transliteration: Kupros Phonetic Spelling: (koo'-pros) Short ...
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1086. Gerasenos -- Gerasene, of Gerasa, a city East of the Jordan
... Gerasene, of Gerasa, a city East of the Jordan. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: Gerasenos Phonetic Spelling: (gher-ghes-ay-nos') Short ...
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4947. Suria -- Syria, a region N. and East of Pal.
... 4946, 4947. Suria. 4948 . Syria, a region N. and East of Pal. Part of Speech:
Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Suria Phonetic Spelling ...
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395. anatole -- a rising
... a rising. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: anatole Phonetic Spelling:
(an-at-ol-ay') Short Definition: rising of the sun, the East Definition: (a ...
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2148. Eurokludon -- Euroklydon, northeast wind
... northeast wind. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Eurokludon Phonetic
Spelling: (yoo-rok-loo'-dohn) Short Definition: an east-north-east wind ...
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2246. helios -- the sun
... the sun, sunlight. Word Origin a prim. word Definition the sun NASB Word
Usage east* (1), sun (31). east, sun, light. From hele (a ...
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1046. Gadarenos -- of Gadara, Gadarene
... Definition: Gadarene, belonging to Gadara Definition: Gadarene, belonging to Gadara
(an important Hellenized town, one of the Decapolis, and south-east of the ...
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4749. stole -- equipment, apparel
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: stole Phonetic Spelling: (stol-ay') Short Definition:
a long robe Definition: a long robe, worn by the upper classes in the East ...
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5075. tetrarcheo -- be tetrarch.
... 5075 -- to rule as a tetrarch, ie over of a territory "divided into four parts for
efficient government (a division sometimes found in the Roman East)" (Souter ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6921. qadim -- east, east wind
... 6920, 6921. qadim. 6922 . east, east wind. Transliteration: qadim Phonetic
Spelling: (kaw-deem') Short Definition: east. Word Origin ...
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4217. mizrach -- place of sunrise, the east
... 4216, 4217. mizrach. 4218 . place of sunrise, the east. Transliteration:
mizrach Phonetic Spelling: (miz-rawkh') Short Definition: east. ...
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6926. qidmah -- front, east
... 6925, 6926. qidmah. 6927 . front, east. Transliteration: qidmah Phonetic
Spelling: (kid-maw') Short Definition: east. Word Origin ...
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6924a. qedem -- front, east, formerly
... 6924, 6924a. qedem. 6924b . front, east, formerly. Transliteration: qedem
Short Definition: east. Word Origin from an unused word ...
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6924b. qedem -- eastward, toward the east
... 6924a, 6924b. qedem. 6925 . eastward, toward the east. Transliteration:
qedem Short Definition: eastward. Word Origin from the same ...
/hebrew/6924b.htm - 5k

6924. qedem -- front, east, formerly
... 6923, 6924. qedem. 6924a . front, east, formerly. Transliteration: qedem
Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-dem) Short Definition: aforetime. ...
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7433. Ramoth Gilad -- a city East of the Jordan
... a city East of the Jordan. Transliteration: Ramoth Gilad or Ramoth Gilad Phonetic
Spelling: (raw-moth') Short Definition: Ramoth-gilead. ...
/hebrew/7433.htm - 6k

1020. Beth Hayshimoth -- "place of the desert," a place East of ...
Beth Hayshimoth. 1019, 1020. Beth Hayshimoth. 1021 . "place of the desert,"
a place East of the Jordan in Moab. Transliteration: Beth Hayshimoth Phonetic ...
/hebrew/1020.htm - 6k

1047. Beth Peor -- "house of Peor," a place East of the Jordan
... Beth Peor. 1048 . "house of Peor," a place East of the Jordan. Transliteration:
Beth Peor Phonetic Spelling: (bayth pe-ore') Short Definition: Beth-peor. ...
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2218. Zered -- a wadi East of the Dead Sea
... 2217, 2218. Zered. 2219 . a wadi East of the Dead Sea. Transliteration:
Zered Phonetic Spelling: (zeh'-red) Short Definition: Zered. ...
/hebrew/2218.htm - 6k

Library

Hymns from the East
Hymns from the East. <. Hymns from the East John Brownlie. Table of Contents.
Title Page. INDEX OF FIRST LINES. INTRODUCTION. MORNING. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/brownlie/hymns from the east/

West by Way of the East.
... The Need West by Way of the East. Still moving east, we come to the newly
awakened and very attractive island-nation of Japan, which ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/west by way of the.htm

Star of the East.
... CHRIST; HIS CHARACTER AND OFFICES. 209. " Star of the East. 209. 11s.
& 10s. M. Heber. Star of the East. 1 Brightest and best ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/adams/hymns for christian devotion/209 star of the.htm

The Churches of the East
... The Church and the Empire CHAPTER XVII THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST. [Sidenote:
The Eastern Church.] ... [Sidenote: Breach between East and West.]. ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter xvii the churches of.htm

Clii. Report of the (Bishops) of the East to the Emperor, Giving ...
... Report of the (Bishops) of the East to the Emperor, giving information of their
proceedings, and explaining the cause of the delay in the arrival of the Bishop ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/clii report of the bishops.htm

Report of (The Bishops Of) the East to the Very Pious Emperor ...
... Report of (the Bishops of) the East to the Very Pious Emperor, which they delivered
with the preceding Report to the Right Honourable Count Iren??us. ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/clviii report of the bishops.htm

In the Meantime in the East, after the Example of the West...
... Book II. Chapter XLII. In the meantime in the East, after the example of
the West? In the meantime in the East, after the example ...
/.../life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xlii in the meantime.htm

Ode to the North-East Wind
... ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND. Welcome, wild North-easter. Shame it is to see Odes
to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black North-easter! ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/ode to the north-east wind.htm

The Good Count of the East
... BOOK VI CHAPTER LXXIII THE GOOD COUNT OF THE EAST. ... had not only made him a
Clarissimus, but had actually appointed him Count of the East! ...
/.../chapter lxxiii the good count.htm

Concerning Worship Towards the East.
... Book IV. Chapter XII."Concerning Worship towards the East. It is not without
reason or by chance that we worship towards the East. ...
/.../exposition of the orthodox faith/chapter xii concerning worship towards the.htm

Thesaurus

East (228 Occurrences)
... (1.) The orient (mizrah); the rising of the sun. Thus "the east country" is the
country lying to the east of Syria, the Elymais (Zechariah 8:7). ...
/e/east.htm - 51k

North-east (2 Occurrences)
North-east. Northeast, North-east. Northeaster . Multi-Version
Concordance North-east (2 Occurrences). Acts 27:12 and ...
/n/north-east.htm - 7k

South-east (1 Occurrence)
South-east. Southeast, South-east. Southern . Multi-Version
Concordance South-east (1 Occurrence). Acts 27:12 and as ...
/s/south-east.htm - 6k

East-gate (1 Occurrence)
East-gate. Easterns, East-gate. Eastward . Multi-Version Concordance
East-gate (1 Occurrence). Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover ...
/e/east-gate.htm - 6k

Adjoining (16 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Ezekiel 42:10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,
before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers. ...
/a/adjoining.htm - 10k

Ai (32 Occurrences)
... It lay to the east of Bethel, "beside Beth-aven." The spot which is most probably
the site of this ancient city is Haiyan, 2 miles east from Bethel. ...
/a/ai.htm - 21k

Southeast (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The point of the compass equally distant
from the south and the east; the southeast part or region. ...
/s/southeast.htm - 8k

Abarim (8 Occurrences)
... Regions beyond; ie, on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or rather a mountain-chain,
over against Jericho, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, in the ...
/a/abarim.htm - 12k

Bashan (54 Occurrences)
... 21:33-35; Deuteronomy 3:1-7). This country extended from Gilead in the south to
Hermon in the north, and from the Jordan on the west to Salcah on the east. ...
/b/bashan.htm - 32k

Shur (6 Occurrences)
... The name was probably given to it from the wall (or shur) which the Egyptians built
to defend their frontier on the north-east from the desert tribes. ...
/s/shur.htm - 11k

Resources

Why did Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh want to live on the east of the Jordan? | GotQuestions.org

Why did God have the cherubim guard just the east side of Eden (Genesis 3:24)? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that God has removed our sins from us “as far as the east is from the west” (Psalm 103:12)? | GotQuestions.org

East: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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East (228 Occurrences)

Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 2:2
"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 2:9
They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 8:11
I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:31
And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will bring together His own People to Him from north, south, east and west--from one extremity of the world to the other.
(WEY)

Mark 13:27
Then He will send forth the angels and gather together His chosen People from north, south, east and west, from the remotest parts of the earth and the sky.
(WEY)

Mark 16:20
They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
(See NAS)

Luke 13:29
They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 7:2
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
(KJV WEY BBE WBS NIV)

Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
(KJV WEY BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:13
On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 2:8
Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
(KJV JPS BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 4:16
Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 10:30
Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
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Genesis 11:2
It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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Genesis 12:8
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
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Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
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Genesis 13:14
Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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Genesis 16:12
He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
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Genesis 23:17
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
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Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 25:6
but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
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Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
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Genesis 25:18
And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.
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Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
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Genesis 41:6
Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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Genesis 41:23
and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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Genesis 41:27
The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
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Genesis 49:30
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
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Genesis 50:13
for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
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Exodus 10:13
Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
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Exodus 14:21
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
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Exodus 27:13
The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
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Exodus 38:13
For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
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Leviticus 1:16
and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.
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Leviticus 16:14
He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
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Numbers 2:3
Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
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Numbers 3:38
Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
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Numbers 10:5
When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
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Numbers 21:11
And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.
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Numbers 23:7
He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
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Numbers 32:19
For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."
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Numbers 33:7
They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
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Numbers 34:3
then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
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Numbers 34:10
"'You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham;
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Numbers 34:11
and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
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Numbers 34:15
the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."
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Numbers 35:5
You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
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Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the east side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against Suf, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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Deuteronomy 1:5
On the east side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
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Deuteronomy 3:8
We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;
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Deuteronomy 3:17
the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
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Deuteronomy 3:27
Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
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Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;
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Deuteronomy 4:46
On the east side of Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they had come forth from Egypt:
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Deuteronomy 4:47
And they took his land for a heritage, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, whose lands were on the other side of Jordan to the east;
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Deuteronomy 4:49
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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Joshua 1:14
Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them
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Joshua 1:15
Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.
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Joshua 2:10
For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
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Joshua 4:19
The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
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Joshua 7:2
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.
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Joshua 9:10
And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, at Ashtaroth.
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Joshua 11:3
to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
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Joshua 11:8
Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none remaining.
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Joshua 12:1
Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
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Joshua 12:3
and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
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Joshua 13:3
from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
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Joshua 13:5
And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:
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Joshua 13:8
With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
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Joshua 13:25
Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
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Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
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Joshua 13:32
These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
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Joshua 14:3
For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
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Joshua 15:5
The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.
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Joshua 16:1
The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
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Joshua 16:5
This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
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Joshua 16:6
The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.
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Joshua 17:5
Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
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Joshua 17:7
The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
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Joshua 17:10
Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
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Joshua 18:7
For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."
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Joshua 18:20
The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.
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Joshua 19:11
Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
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Joshua 19:12
It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
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Joshua 19:13
From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
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Joshua 19:27
Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul
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Joshua 19:34
And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out from there to Hukkok, stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah at Jordan on the east.
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Joshua 20:8
Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
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Joshua 24:8
"'I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
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Judges 6:3
So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
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Judges 6:33
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
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Judges 7:12
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
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Judges 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
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Judges 8:11
Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army was secure.
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Judges 10:8
They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years oppressed they all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
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