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Lexicon :: Strong's H4217 - mizrāḥ

Aa
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 width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:13 - For the east side the hangings were fifty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - “On the east side, toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies; and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be the leader of the children of Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - Moreover those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons, keeping charge of the sanctuary, to meet the needs of the children of Israel; but the outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19

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 fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - “The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - “the plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - ‘Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - And they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - “until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as He gave you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD’s servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth,[fn] and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - and the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - “the land of the Gebalites,[fn] and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given 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, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - The lot fell to the children of Joseph from the Jordan, by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho through the mountains to Bethel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - The border of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was thus: The border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth Addar as far as Upper Beth Horon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 - And the border went out toward the sea on the north side of Michmethath; then the border went around eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed by it on the east of Janohah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - Southward it was Ephraim’s, northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was its border. Manasseh’s territory was adjoining Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:12 - Then from Sarid it went eastward toward the sunrise along the border of Chisloth Tabor, and went out toward Daberath, bypassing Japhia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:13 - And from there it passed along on the east of Gath Hepher, toward Eth Kazin, and extended to Rimmon, which borders on Neah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon; and it reached to Zebulun and to the Valley of Jiphthah El, then northward beyond Beth Emek and Neiel, bypassing Cabul which was on the left,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - From Heleph the border extended westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there toward Hukkok; it adjoined Zebulun on the south side and Asher on the west side, and ended at Judah by the Jordan toward the sunrise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - And on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, 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

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - ‘And they went along through the wilderness and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab, came to the east side of the land of Moab, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and easily trampled them down as far as the front of Gibeah toward the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It stood on twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - from the Jordan eastward: all the land of Gilead—Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh—from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, including Gilead and Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39 - So they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9 - Eastward they settled as far as the entrance of the wilderness this side of the River Euphrates, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - Now in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout the entire area east of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 - And on the other side of the Jordan, across from Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, they were given from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its common-lands, Jahzah with its common-lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Now their possessions and dwelling places were Bethel and its towns: to the east Naaran, to the west Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah[fn] and its towns;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King’s Gate on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gatekeepers were assigned to the four directions: the east, west, north, and south.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14 - The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then they cast lots for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and his lot came out for the North Gate;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - On the east were six Levites, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, and for the storehouse[fn] two by two.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - It stood on twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:4 - Then he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them in the East Square,

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