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east

Meaning of “east”

The direction of sunrise; lands or regions toward that direction.

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157 occurrences148 verses25 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:14

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Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 15:2 · retained source text

Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde?

1611 marginal noteHeb. knowledge of wind

Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 27:21 · retained source text

The East winde carieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storme hurleth him out of his place.

Psalms 75:6
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 75:6 · retained source text

For promotion commeth neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South.

1611 marginal noteHeb. desert

Psalms 78:26
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 78:26 · retained source text

He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to goe.

Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 103:12 · retained source text

As farre as the East is from the West: so farre hath hee remooued our transgressions from vs.

Psalms 107:3
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 107:3 · retained source text

And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West: from the North and from the South.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from the sea.

Isaiah 2:6
¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 2:6 · retained source text

¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselues in the children of strangers.

1611 marginal noteOr, more then the East.

1611 marginal noteOr, abound with the children. &c

Isaiah 11:14
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 11:14 · retained source text

But they shall fly vpon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West, they shall spoile them of the East together: they shall lay their hand vpon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the children of the East.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Edom and Moab shall be the laying on of their hand.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the children of Ammon their obedience.

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