mizrach · east

What it means

mizrach (מִזְרָח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “east”.

Where the sun rises: the east.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The east, where the sun rises.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• east ×46
• toward the sunrise ×14
• rising ×8
• eastward ×4
• eastern ×1
• sunrise ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×5
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×23
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×10
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×3
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×2
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×2
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 27:13

  The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits.

• Exodus 38:13

  And for the east side, toward the sunrise, fifty cubits.

• Numbers 2:3

  Those who camp on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be the banner of the camp of Judah by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab,

• Numbers 3:38

  And those who camp in front of the dwelling on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, as the charge of the sons of Israel; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

• Numbers 21:11

  And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite 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, to the east.”

• Numbers 34:15

  The two tribes and the half tribe have taken their inheritance on this side of the Jordan opposite Jericho, eastward, toward the sunrise.”

• Deuteronomy 3:17

  and the Arabah, 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.

• Deuteronomy 3:27

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

• Deuteronomy 4:41

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

• 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, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

• Joshua 1:15

  until YHWH gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also take possession of the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

• Joshua 4:19

  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho.

• Joshua 11:3

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

• Joshua 11:8

  And YHWH gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and as far as Misrephoth-maim, and as far as the valley of Mizpah to the east; and they struck them until they had left them no survivor.

• Joshua 12:1

  Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they took possession of beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the brook Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

• Joshua 12:3

  and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth to the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, below the slopes of Pisgah;

• Joshua 13:5

  and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

• Joshua 13:8

  With it the Reubenites and the Gadites took their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of YHWH gave it to 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 and its border, as far as the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan to the east.

• Joshua 13:32

  These are what Moses gave as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east.

• Joshua 16:1

  And the lot for the sons of Joseph went out from the Jordan by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel;

• Joshua 16:5

  And the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families was this: the border of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,

• Joshua 16:6

  and the border went out to the sea, with Michmethath on the north; and the border turned eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah;

• Joshua 17:10

  The south was Ephraim’s and the north Manasseh’s, and the sea was its border; and they reached Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

• Joshua 18:7

  For the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of YHWH is their inheritance; and Gad, Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave them.”

• Joshua 19:12

  and it turned back from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia;

• Joshua 19:13

  and from there it passed along eastward, toward the sunrise, to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went out to Rimmon, turning to Neah;

• Joshua 19:27

  and it turned back toward the sunrise to Beth-dagon, and touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el to the north, Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,

• Joshua 19:34

  and the border turned back westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok, and touched Zebulun on the south, and touched Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

• Joshua 20:8

  And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

• Judges 11:18

  Then he went through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; and they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

• Judges 20:43

  They surrounded Benjamin, pursued him, trod him down without rest as far as opposite Gibeah toward the sunrise.

• Judges 21:19

  And they said, “Look, there is the feast of YHWH in Shiloh from year to year, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

• 1 Kings 7:25

  It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

• 2 Kings 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 wadi Arnon, both Gilead and Bashan.

• 1 Chronicles 4:39

  And they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

• 1 Chronicles 5:9

  And to the east he lived as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

• 1 Chronicles 5:10

  And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and they fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout the whole east side of Gilead.

And 34 more times.