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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• East Wind
• East Sea
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Ophir Tarshish & East Indies: & MacCassars (in General Index)
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Turning to the East
• East, Turning to the
American Tract Society
• Wise Men From the East
• Star in the East
• East Wind
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• East, Children of the
• East Wind
• East Sea
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• East Wind
• East Sea
• East
Holman Bible Dictionary
• People of the East
• East Wind
• East Sea
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• East, Children of the
• East Sea, Eastern Sea
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Marcianus, Flavius, Emperor of the East
King James Dictionary
• East
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Star in the East
• East
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Ethelbert of East Anglia, Saint
• East Syrian Rite
• East Anglia, England, Diocese of
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• East
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• North East, North West
• East
Wilson's Bible Types
• East Wind
• East
Webster Dictionary
• Easting
• East-Insular
• East Indian
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• East
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Alfred East
• Barkly East
• Batavia, Dutch East Indies
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Children of the East
• East (Eastern), Sea
• East Country
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• East
• East Wind
• Star in the East
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Apthorp, East
• Bonifacius Bishop of the East Angles.
• Bowing Toward the East
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Anglia, East
• Anstruther, East and West
• East India Company
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• East Syrian Rite
• Patriarchate of the East Indies
• Portuguese East Africa
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• East
• East Indies
Lexicons
• ܡܰܕ݂ܢܚܳܐ
• ἀνατολή
• ἥλιος
• אֲרִיסַי
• חַרְסותּ , חַרְסִית
• מוֹצָא
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EAST, n. L. oriens, this word may belong to the root of hoise,hoist.

1. The point in the heavens, where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or when it is in the equinoctial, or the corresponding point on the earth one of the four cardinal points. The east and the west are the points where the equator intersects the horizon. But to persons under the equinoctial line, that line constitutes east and west.

2. The eastern parts of the earth the regions or countries which lie east of Europe, or other country. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, &c. We speak of the riches of the east, the diamonds and pearls of the east, the kings of the east.

The gorgeous east, with richest hand,

Pours on her kings barbaric,pearl and gold.

EAST, a. Towards the rising sun or towards the point where the sun rises, when in the equinoctial as the east gate the east border the east side. The east wind is a wind that blows from the east.