Strong's #395: anatole (pronounced an-at-ol-ay')
from 393; a rising of light, i.e. dawn (figuratively); by implication, the east (also in plural):--dayspring, east, rising.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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anatolē
1) a rising (of the sun and stars)
2) the east (the direction of the sun' s rising)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G393
Citing in TDNT: 1:352, 57
Usage:
This word is used 10 times:
Matthew 2:1: "there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,"
Matthew 2:2: "star in the east, and are come to worship him."
Matthew 2:9: "they saw in the east, went before them, till it came"
Matthew 8:11: "many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down"
Matthew 24:27: "lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west;"
Luke 1:78: "the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high"
Luke 13:29: "And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from"
Revelation 7:2: "angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living"
Revelation 16:12: "of the kings of the east might be prepared."
Revelation 21:13: "On the east three gates; on the north three gates;"