East

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “east”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “east” or one of its forms.

• קָדִים qâdîm61
• מִזְרָח mizrâch52
• קֶדֶם qedem42
• ἀνατολή anatolḗ9
• קִדְמָה qidmâh4
• עֵבֶר êber4
• עַל al4
• שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh3
• אֲשֶׁר ăsher2
• קַדְמוֹנִי qadmônî2

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

• קָדִים qâdîmEast, east windtranslated this way 61 times of its 68 uses · Strong’s H6921Noun  ·  Translated: east 42, east wind 9, east side 5, eastward 3

  Genesis 41:6 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

  Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

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• מִזְרָח mizrâchplace of sunrise, easttranslated this way 52 times of its 70 uses · Strong’s H4217Noun  ·  Translated: east 46, eastward 6, toward the sunrise 5, east side 4

  Numbers 21:11 They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

  Deuteronomy 3:17 The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

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• קֶדֶם qedemfront, east, aforetimetranslated this way 42 times of its 85 uses · Strong’s H6924Noun  ·  Translated: east 35, old 13, eastern 5, east side 4

  Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

  Exodus 27:13 The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.

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• קִדְמָה qidmâhfront, Easttranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H6926Noun  ·  Translated: east 3, east side 1

  Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

  1 Samuel 13:5 Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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• עֵבֶר êberregion across or beyond, sidetranslated this way 4 times of its 80 uses · Strong’s H5676Noun  ·  Translated: beyond 23, across 15, side 11, other side 8

  Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan — in the Arabah opposite Suph — between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

  Joshua 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.

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• עַל alheighttranslated this way 4 times of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition  ·  Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216Full study and all 3,996 verses →
• שֶׁמֶשׁ shemeshsuntranslated this way 3 times of its 108 uses · Strong’s H8121Noun  ·  Translated: sun 88, time the sun 3, sunset 3, broad daylight 2

  Judges 11:18 Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.

  Judges 20:43 They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

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• אֲשֶׁר ăsherparticle of relationtranslated this way 2 times of its 3,225 uses · Strong’s H834Pronoun  ·  Translated: that 886, who 451, as 247, which 160Full study and all 2,844 verses →
• קַדְמוֹנִי qadmônîformer, easterntranslated this way 2 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s H6931Adjective  ·  Translated: Eastern 3, east 2, old 1, things of old 1

  Job 18:20 Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

  Ezekiel 10:19 As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.

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Greek words (New Testament)

• ἀνατολή anatolḗrising of the sun, the Easttranslated this way 9 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s G395Noun  ·  Translated: east 9, Dawn 1

  Matthew 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

  Luke 13:29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.