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Lexicon :: Strong's H4217 - mizrāḥ

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מִזְרָח
Transliteration
mizrāḥ
Pronunciation
miz-rawkh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 580c

Strong’s Definitions

מִזְרָח mizrâch, miz-rawkh'; from H2224; sunrise, i.e. the east:—east (side, -ward), (sun-) rising (of the sun).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 74x

The KJV translates Strong's H4217 in the following manner: east (30x), eastward (20x), sunrising (with H8121) (9x), rising (8x), east side (5x), east end (1x), sunrising (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 74x
The KJV translates Strong's H4217 in the following manner: east (30x), eastward (20x), sunrising (with H8121) (9x), rising (8x), east side (5x), east end (1x), sunrising (1x).

  1. place of sunrise, east

    1. sunrise, east (with 'sun')

    2. the east (without 'sun')

      1. to or toward the place of sunrise

      2. to the east, eastward

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִזְרָח mizrâch, miz-rawkh'; from H2224; sunrise, i.e. the east:—east (side, -ward), (sun-) rising (of the sun).
STRONGS H4217: Abbreviations
† מִזְרָח noun [masculine] place of sunrise, east — absolute מ׳ Joshua 11:3 + 21 times; construct מִזְרַח Numbers 21:10 + 19 times, with ה locative מִזְרָ֫חָה Exodus 27:13 + 28 times, construct מִזְרְחָה Deuteronomy 4:41; Joshua 12:1; Judges 21:19 (not in Genesis Leviticus Samuel Ezekiel etc.); —
1. sunrise always of quarter of the heavens = east (ה)שׁמשׁ מ׳ Numbers 21:11 (P), Deuteronomy 4:41, 47; Joshua 1:15; Joshua 12:1; Joshua 13:5 (all D), Joshua 19:12, 27, 34 (all P), Judges 20:43; Judges 21:19; 2 Kings 10:33; Isaiah 41:25; Isaiah 45:6; Isaiah 59:19, compare שׁמשׁ לארץ מ׳ Judges 11:18; שׁמשׁ וְעַדמְֿבוֺאוֺ מִמִּז׳ Psalm 50:1; Psalm 113:3; Malachi 1:11; more often
2. without שֶׁמֶשׁ :
a. the east כִּרְחֹק מ׳ מִמַּעֲרָב֑ Psalm 103:12.
b. מִמּ׳ from the east Isaiah 41:2; Isaiah 43:5 (opposed to מִמַּעֲרָב), Isaiah 46:11; Daniel 11:44 (+ מִצַּפוֺן); מִמּ׳ וּמִמַּעֲרָב֑ מִצָּפוֺן וּמִיָּם Psalm 107:3.
c. to or toward the place of sunrise, to the east, eastward:
(1) מִוְרָ֫חָה Numbers 32:19 (P), Deuteronomy 3:17, 27 (וּמ׳וְתֵימָ֫נָה וְצָפ֫וֹנָה יָ֫מָּה), Deuteronomy 4:24; Joshua 11:8; Joshua 16:1; (JE), Joshua 12:1; Joshua 12:3 (twice in verse); Joshua 13:8 (all D), Joshua 13:27; Joshua 13:32; Joshua 16:5; Joshua 18:7; Joshua 20:8; (all P) 1 Chronicles 9:18; 1 Chronicles 26:14; || קֵ֫דְמָה Numbers 3:38; Joshua 19:13; (both P) Jeremiah 31:40; || צָפ֫וֹנָה, יָ֫מּה, נֶ֫גְבָּה 1 Kings 7:25, compare Joshua 16:6 (P) 1 Chronicles 26:17; + קֵ֫דְמָה Exodus 27:13; Exodus 38:13; Numbers 2:3; Numbers 34:15; (all P); מִקֶּדֶם Zechariah 14:4; (opp. יָ֫מָּה)
(2) מִוְרָח (without ה loc.), וָנֶ֫גְבָּה צָפוֹנָה יָ֫מָּה מ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:24; compare Nehemiah 12:37; לַמִּוְבֵּחַ מ׳ 2 Chronicles 5:12;
(3) לַמִּז׳ 1 Chronicles 5:9; 1 Chronicles 7:28; (opp. לַמַּעֲרָב) 1 Chronicles 12:16; (so Baer; 1 Chronicles 12:15 van d. H; opp. id.) 1 Chronicles 26:17; (+ לַצָּפ֫וֺנָה, לַנֶּ֫גְבָּה), Nehemiah 3:26; לַמִּזְרָ֫חָה 2 Chronicles 31:14;
(4) אֶלהַֿמּ׳ Daniel 8:9 (+ אֶלהַֿנֶּגֶב, אֶלהַֿצֶּבִ֑י);
(5) מִיָּם עָדיָֿם וּמִצָּפוֺן עַדמִֿזְ רָךְ Amos 8:12.
d. (on) the east side of, construct קְצֵה מִזְרַה יְרִיחוֺ Joshua 4:19 (P); also with לְמִזְרַח הַנָּ֑יְא לְ 1 Chronicles 4:39, הַיַּרְדֵּן לְמ׳ 1 Chronicles 6:63; with מִן, מִמִּז׳ Joshua 11:3 (opposed to מִיָּם) compare Joshua 17:10 (+ מצָּפוֺן; both J E), also Joshua 16:6 (P).
e. after a construct לגלעד מ׳ עַל־כָּל־פְּנֵי 1 Chronicles 5:10; רְחוֺב הַמּ׳ 2 Chronicles 29:4; שַׁעַר הַמּ׳ Nehemiah 3:29; אֶרֶץ מ׳ Zechariah 8:7 (opposed to ארץ מְבוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

27:13; 27:13; 38:13

Numbers

2:3; 3:38; 21:10; 21:11; 32:19; 34:15

Deuteronomy

3:17; 3:27; 4:24; 4:41; 4:41; 4:47

Joshua

1:15; 4:19; 11:3; 11:3; 11:8; 12:1; 12:1; 12:1; 12:3; 13:5; 13:8; 13:27; 13:32; 16:1; 16:5; 16:6; 16:6; 17:10; 18:7; 19:12; 19:13; 19:27; 19:34; 20:8

Judges

11:18; 20:43; 21:19; 21:19

1 Kings

7:25

2 Kings

10:33

1 Chronicles

4:39; 5:9; 5:10; 6:63; 7:28; 9:18; 9:24; 12:15; 12:16; 26:14; 26:17; 26:17

2 Chronicles

5:12; 29:4; 31:14

Nehemiah

3:26; 3:29; 12:37

Psalms

50:1; 103:12; 107:3; 113:3

Isaiah

41:2; 41:25; 43:5; 45:6; 46:11; 59:19

Jeremiah

31:40

Daniel

8:9; 11:44

Amos

8:12

Zechariah

8:7; 14:4

Malachi

1:11

H4217

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4217 matches the Hebrew מִזְרָח (mizrāḥ),
which occurs 74 times in 71 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 27:13–2Ch 29:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:13 - The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:13 - And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect[fn] the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh[fn] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 - and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:12 - From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:13 - From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah[fn] as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39 - They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9 - He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 - and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - until then they were in the king’s gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14 - The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - On the east there were six each day,[fn] on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the gatehouse.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:4 - He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east

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