Strong's Greek Concordance

G395: ἀνατολή

anatolḗ · “east”

Definition

a rising of light, i.e. dawn (figuratively); by implication, the east (also in plural)

KJV translates it as: dayspring, east, rising

Word origin: from G393 (ἀνατέλλω);

Extended definition

ἀνατολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(ἀνατέλλω), [in LXX chiefly for מִזְרָח קָדִים ;]
1. a rising: of light, Luk.1:78.
2. the sun-rising, the east (MM, VGT, see word): Mat.2:2, 9, Rev.21:13; ἀ. ἡλίου, Rev.7:2 16:12 (WΗ, p1.); pl., Mat.2:1 8:11 24:27, Luk.13:29.†
(AS)

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How G395 is translated

  • east ×6
  • the sunrise ×1
  • the rising ×1
  • rising ×1
  • the east ×1

Bible verses with G395 (anatolḗ)

Anatolḗ appears in 10 verses.

  • Matthew 2:1

    Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

  • Matthew 2:2

    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.

  • Matthew 2:9

    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.

  • Matthew 8:11

    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.

  • Matthew 24:27

    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.

  • Luke 1:78

    Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

  • Luke 13:29

    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.

  • Revelation 7:2

    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,

  • Revelation 16:12

    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.

  • Revelation 21:13

    On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.