Lexicon :: Strong's H6921 - qāḏîm

After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

“After them, seven heads of grain ​— ​withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind ​— ​sprouted up.

“The seven thin, sickly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided,

Does a wise man answer with empty[fn] counsel

or fill himself[fn] with the hot east wind?

An east wind picks him up, and he is gone;

it carries him away from his place.

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[fn]

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish

with the east wind.

He made the east wind blow in the skies

and drove the south wind by his might.

You disputed with Israel

by banishing and driving her away.[fn]

He removed her with his severe storm

on the day of the east wind.

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.

I will show them[fn] my back and not my face

on the day of their calamity.

The Spirit then lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the LORD’s house, which faces east, and at the gate’s entrance were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.

“Even though it is planted, will it flourish? Won’t it wither completely when the east wind strikes it? It will wither on the plot where it sprouted.’ ”

“But it was uprooted in fury,

thrown to the ground,

and the east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;

fire consumed them.

“Your rowers have brought you

onto the high seas,

but the east wind has wrecked you

in the heart of the sea.

Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 ¹/₂ feet deep ​— ​one threshold was 10 ¹/₂ feet deep.

There were three recesses on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the jambs on either side also had the same measurements.

Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the exterior front of the inner court; it was 175 feet.[fn] This was the east; next the north is described.

Its windows, portico, and palm trees had the same measurements as those of the gate that faced east. Seven steps led up to the gate, and its portico was ahead of them.

Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. When he measured the gate, it had the same measurements as the others.

Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:[fn] one[fn] beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south[fn] gate, facing north.

The width of the front of the temple along with the temple yard to the east was 175 feet.

At the base of these chambers there was an entryway on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

The entrance at the beginning of the passageway, the way in front of the corresponding[fn] wall as one enters on the east side, was similar to the entrances of the chambers that were on the south side.

When he finished measuring inside the temple complex, he led me out by way of the gate that faced east and measured all around the complex.

He led me to the gate, the one that faces east,

The glory of the LORD entered the temple by way of the gate that faced east.

“The ledge is 24 ¹/₂ feet[fn] long by 24 ¹/₂ feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10 ¹/₂ inches,[fn] and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.”

The man then brought me back toward the sanctuary’s outer gate that faced east, and it was closed.

“And the prince will have the area on each side of the holy donation of land and the city’s property, adjacent to the holy donation and the city’s property, stretching to the west on the west side and to the east on the east side. Its length will correspond to one of the tribal portions from the western boundary to the eastern boundary.

“This is what the Lord GOD says: The gate of the inner court that faces east is to be closed during the six days of work, but it will be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the New Moon.

“When the prince makes a freewill offering, whether a burnt offering or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate that faces east is to be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or fellowship offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he will go out, and the gate is to be closed after he leaves.

Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple and there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the temple faced east. The water was coming down from under the south side of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.

“On the east side it will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; you will measure from the northern border to the eastern sea.[fn] This will be the eastern side.

“Now these are the names of the tribes:

From the northern end, along the road of Hethlon, to Lebo-hamath as far as Hazar-enon, at the northern border of Damascus, alongside Hamath and extending from the eastern side to the sea, will be Dan ​— ​one portion.

“This holy donation will be set apart for the priests alone. It will be 8 ¹/₃ miles long on the northern side, 3 ¹/₃ miles wide on the western side, 3 ¹/₃ miles wide on the eastern side, and 8 ¹/₃ miles long on the southern side. The LORD’s sanctuary will be in the middle of it.