Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
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ἀνατολή
G395 · anatolḗ · an-at-ol-ay' · Greek
Strong’s definition
a rising of light, i.e. dawn (figuratively); by implication, the east (also in plural)
KJV usage
:--dayspring, east, rising.
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Mapped occurrences
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
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,
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.
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.