Biblica Analytica
H4217H Hebrew

מִזְרָח

miz.rach

east

Lexicon Entry

Definition
east
Transliteration
miz.rach
Strong's Number
H4217H
Occurrences
73
Semantic Domain
Geography & Place

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Supported

# Mizrach: The Hebrew Word for East The Hebrew word *mizrach* (מִזְרָח) denotes the direction east and appears 73 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency indicates that directional orientation was a consistent feature of biblical geography and narrative. The term functions as a straightforward spatial marker, allowing biblical writers to locate places, describe movements, and orient readers within their geographical framework. The word's prominence across 73 occurrences suggests its practical importance to the ancient Hebrew-speaking community. Rather than being a specialized or theological term, *mizrach* served as an essential navigational reference point in daily language and scriptural description. Its repeated use across different biblical books and contexts indicates it was a standard, well-understood directional term that readers would have immediately recognized, making it useful for both literal geographical descriptions and for structuring spatial relationships in narratives.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H4217H
Lemma
מִזְרָח
Transliteration
miz.rach
Definition
east
Occurrences
73
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

73 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 29:4

He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,

2 Chronicles 31:14

Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east gate, was over the free will offerings of God, to distribute Yahweh’s offerings and the most holy things.

Nehemiah 3:26

(Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

Nehemiah 12:37

By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

Psalms 50:1

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Psalms 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Psalms 107:3

And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

Psalms 113:3

From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

Isaiah 41:2

Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

Isaiah 41:25

“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 43:5

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.

Isaiah 45:6

that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

Isaiah 46:11

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

Isaiah 59:19

So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.

Jeremiah 31:40

The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”

Daniel 8:9

Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.

Daniel 11:44

But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.

Amos 8:12

They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.

Zechariah 8:7

Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

Zechariah 14:4

His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Exodus 38:13

For the east side eastward fifty cubits,

Exodus 27:13

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

Numbers 2:3

Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Numbers 3:38

Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,

Numbers 21:11

They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.

Numbers 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 eastward.”

Numbers 34:15

The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

Deuteronomy 3:17

the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Deuteronomy 3:27

Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 4:47

They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

Deuteronomy 4:49

and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Joshua 1:15

until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”

Joshua 4:19

The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

Joshua 11:3

to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Joshua 11:8

Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.

Joshua 12:1

Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

Joshua 12:1

Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

Joshua 12:3

and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Joshua 12:3

and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Joshua 13:5

and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;

Joshua 13:8

With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:

Joshua 13:27

and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

Joshua 13:32

These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.

Joshua 16:1

The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

Joshua 16:5

This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.

Joshua 16:6

The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

Joshua 16:6

The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

Joshua 17:10

Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.