Lexicon :: Strong's H6921 - qāḏîm

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD swept the sea back by a strong east wind all that night and turned the seabed into dry land, and the waters were divided.

“Should a wise man [such as you] utter such windy and vain knowledge [as we have just heard]

And fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?

“The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone;

It sweeps him out of his place.

“Where is the way that the light is distributed,

Or the east wind scattered over the earth?

With the east wind

You shattered the ships of Tarshish.

He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens

And by His [unlimited] power He guided the south wind.

You contended with them by exile, by driving them away [from Canaan];

He has expelled them with His fierce wind on the day of the east wind.

‘I will scatter them like an east wind

Before the enemy;

I will show them My back and not My face

In the day of their disaster [says the LORD].’”

Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the LORD’S house, which faced eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate there were twenty-five men; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

‘But the vine was uprooted in [godly] wrath [by His representative]

And it was thrown down to the ground;

The east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branch was broken off

So that it withered;

The fire [of God’s judgment] consumed it.

“Your rowers have brought you

Into great and deep waters;

The east wind has broken and shipwrecked you

In the heart of the seas.

He brought me into the inner courtyard toward the east, and he measured the gate; it measured the same as the others.

From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner courtyard, one of which was [fn]beside the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one [fn]beside the [fn]south gate facing toward the north.

Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out toward the gate which faced east and measured the outer area all around.

Then he (the angel) led me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.

Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut.

“The prince shall have land on either side of the portion set aside as a holy section and the property of the city, adjacent to the holy section and the property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “The gate of the inner courtyard that faces east shall be shut during the six working days, but it shall be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the New Moon.

Then he [my guide] brought me back to the door of the house [the temple of the LORD]; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house (temple) toward the east, for the front of the temple was facing east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

“The east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

“Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, beside Hamath, and running from the east to the west, Dan, one portion.