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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. The Hebrew term, kedem, properly means that which is before or in front of a person, and was applied to the east, from the custom of turning in that direction, when describing the points of the compass, before, behind, the right and the left representing respectively east, west, south and north. Job 23:8-9.

The term as generally used refers to the lands lying immediately eastward of Palestine, namely, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Babylonia; on the other hand, mizrach, is used of the far east with a less definite signification. Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:25; Isaiah 43:5; Isaiah 46:11.