Lexicon :: Strong's H4217 - mizrāḥ

Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate, was over the freewill offerings to God to distribute the contribution to the LORD and the consecrated things.

and the temple servants living on Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.

At the Fountain Gate they climbed the steps of the city of David on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

The Mighty One, God,[fn] the LORD, speaks;

he summons the earth

from the rising of the sun to its setting.

As far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed

our transgressions from us.

and has gathered them from the lands —

from the east and the west,

from the north and the south.

From the rising of the sun to its setting,

let the name of the LORD be praised.

“Who has stirred up someone from the east?

In righteousness he calls him to serve.[fn][fn]

The LORD hands nations over to him,

and he subdues kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

like wind-driven stubble with his bow.

“Do not fear, for I am with you;

I will bring your descendants from the east,

and gather you from the west.

“so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its setting

that there is no one but me.

I am the LORD, and there is no other.

“I call a bird of prey[fn] from the east,

a man for my purpose from a far country.

Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.

I have planned it; I will also do it.

They will fear the name of the LORD in the west

and his glory in the east;[fn]

for he will come like a rushing stream

driven by the wind of the LORD.

“The whole valley ​— ​the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east ​— ​will be holy to the LORD. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.”

From one of them a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.[fn]

“But reports from the east and the north will terrify him, and he will go out with great fury to annihilate and completely destroy many.

People will stagger from sea to sea

and roam from north to east

seeking the word of the LORD,

but they will not find it.

The LORD of Armies says this: “I will save my people from the land of the east and the land of the west.[fn]

On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.

“My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense[fn] and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,”[fn] says the LORD of Armies.