Topic
East
13 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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- Genesis 13:14Easton
¶ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
- Genesis 25:6Easton
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
- Genesis 28:14Easton
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Joshua 11:3Easton
And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
- Job 23:8Smith
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
- Job 23:9Smith
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
- Psalms 50:1Easton
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
- Psalms 103:12Easton
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
- Isaiah 42:2Smith
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
- Isaiah 42:25Smith
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
- Isaiah 43:5Smith
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
- Isaiah 46:11Smith
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
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- Zechariah 8:7 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 7 references
(1.) The orient (mizrah); the rising of the sun. Thus “the east country” is the country lying to the east of Syria, the Elymais (Zech. 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 (Gen. 13:14; 28:14); and mizrah when the east only is distinguished from the west (Josh. 11:3; Ps. 50:1; 103:12, etc.). In Gen. 25:6 “eastward” is literally “unto the land of kedem;” i.e., the lands lying east of Palestine, namely, Arabia, Mesopotamia, etc.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 6 references
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.