Genesis 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
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West
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Revelation 21:13
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
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25 occurrences in 22 verses.
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Genesis
22 verses
Exodus
33 verses
Numbers
33 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Joshua
1010 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
33 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Isaiah
55 verses
Ezekiel
2522 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Zechariah
22 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Luke
22 verses
Acts
21 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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יָם
yâm · yawm
47 times translated as this KJV form396 total Strong's occurrences
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
Strong's KJV usage: sea (× -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Strong's first: Genesis 12:8Strong's last: Zechariah 14:4
Open full H3220 profile →מַעֲרָב
maʻărâb · mah-ar-awb'
8 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
the west (as a region of the evening sun)
Strong's KJV usage: west.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 12:15Strong's last: Daniel 8:5
Open full H4628 profile →δυσμή
dysmḗ · doos-may'
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
the sun-set, i.e. (by implication) the western region
Strong's KJV usage: :--west.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:11Strong's last: Revelation 21:13
Open full G1424 profile →λίψ
líps · leeps
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter)
Strong's KJV usage: :--southwest.
Strong's first: Acts 27:12Strong's last: Acts 27:12
Open full G3047 profile →χῶρος
chōros · kho'-ros
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
the north-west wind
Strong's KJV usage: :--north west.
Strong's first: Acts 27:12Strong's last: Acts 27:12
Open full G5566 profile →מָבוֹא
mâbôwʼ · maw-bo'
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
an entrance (the place or the act); specifically sunset or the west; also (adverb with preposition) towards
Strong's KJV usage: by which came, as cometh, in coming, as men enter into, entering, entrance into, entry, where goeth, going down, westward. Compare 4126.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zechariah 8:7Strong's last: Zechariah 8:7
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H4628
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
H4628
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
H4628
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
H3220
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.
H4628
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
H4628
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
H3220
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
H4628
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
H3220
Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
H3220
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
H3220
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
H3220
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
H3220
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
H3220
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
H3220
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
H3220
And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
H3220
And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
H3220
And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
H3220
And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
H3220
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
H3220
And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
H3220
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
H3220
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
H3220
And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
H3220
And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
English meaning and historical usage.
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west
WEST, noun [Latin , a decline or fall, departure. In elements, it coincides with waste.]
1. In strictness, that point of the horizon where the sun sets at the equinox, or any point in a direct line between the spectator or other object, and that point of the horizon; or west is the intersection of the prime vertical with the horizon, on that side where the sun sets. west is directly opposite to east, and one of the cardinal points. In a less strict sense, west is the region of the hemisphere near the point where the sun sets when in the equator. Thus we say, a star sets in the west a meteor appears in the west a cloud rises in the west
2. A country situated in the region towards the sun-setting, with respect to another. Thus in the United States, the inhabitants of the Atlantic states speak of the inhabitants of Ohio, Kentucky or Missouri, and call them people of the west; and formerly, the empire of Rome was called the empire of the west in opposition to the empire of the East, the seat of which was Constantinople.
WEST, adjective
1. Being in a line towards the point where the sun sets when in the equator; or in a looser sense, being in the region near the line of direction towards that point, either on the earth or in the heavens.
This shall be your west border. Numbers 34:6.
2. Coming or moving from the west or western region; as a west wind.
WEST, adverb To the western region; at the westward; more westward; as, Ireland lies west of England.
WEST, verb intransitive To pass to the west; to set, as the sun. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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