ἀνατολή
anatolḗ · G395 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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to come up, to move upward, to rise
To move up, especially of the upward movement of the sun, stars, or clouds
ExamplesMatthew 2:2 “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
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east
East (as the direction of the rising sun)
ExamplesMatthew 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew 2:2 “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
Matthew 2:9 After hearing the king, they went on their way; and behold, the star, which they had seen in the east, went on ahead of them until it came to a stop over the place where the Child was to be found.
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the dawn from on high
(An idiom, literally: dawning from on high) The bright dawn of salvation (or possibly to be understood as a title for the Messiah)
ExamplesLuke 1:78 Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἥλιοςthe sun 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βασιλεύςking 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπισκέπτομαιto visit, to look after 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πυλώνdoor, gate, gateway 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀπόfrom 11
- ἐνin 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 3 words
- מִזְרָח mizrâch · H4217 · east, eastern, easterly
- מִזְרָח (mizrâch, H4217) is the standard Hebrew lexical equivalent for the directional/spatial sense 'east' and the astronomical sense 'sunrise,' directly corresponding to ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, G395)'s core denotation of both dawn/rising light and the east as a cardinal direction.
- קָדִים qâdîym · H6921 · forward, east
- Greek ἀνατολή and Hebrew קָדִים both denote the cardinal direction east, with ἀνατολή emphasizing the rising or dawning of the sun (from which it derives its sense of 'east'), while קָדִים refers directly to the east or the east wind. ἀνατολή is the standard Greek rendering of the Hebrew 'east' in directional and geographical contexts.
- קֶדֶם qedem · H6924 · in front, east, eastern
- ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, G395) denotes the rising/dawn and by extension 'the east' as direction; קֶדֶם (qedem, H6924) denotes 'east' as both direction and temporal 'ancient time/aforetime' — the two overlap specifically in their shared east-directional sense, where LXX translators consistently use ἀνατολή to render Hebrew קֶדֶם in geographical/directional contexts (e.g., 'the east side,' 'eastward').
Semantic domains 3 entries
- The dawn from on high14.42
- In Luke 1:78, Zacharias prophesies that “because of the tender mercy of our God, with which the Sunrise (anatolḗ) from on high will visit us,” using the word for the messianic dawning of God's mercy.
- To come up, to move upward, to rise15.104
- In Revelation 7:2, John sees “another angel ascending from the rising (anatolē̃s) of the sun, holding the seal of the living God,” describing the sun's own act of rising.
- East82.1
- In Matthew 2:1, “after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, magi from the east (anatolō̃n) arrived in Jerusalem,” naming the geographic direction from which the magi came.
Word family 26 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνατολῆς, ἡ (from ἀνατέλλω, which see), as in Greek writings; 1. a rising (of the sun and…
1. a rising (of the sun and stars); light rising ἐξ ὕψους, Lk 1:78.
2. the east (the quarter of the sun's rising): Mt 2:2, Mt 2:9; Rev 21:13 (Griesbach ἀνατολῶν); Herodian, 2, 8, 18 (10); 3, 5, 1; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 14, 3 (6; 1, 26, 6; Mark 16 WH (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'); Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 5, 6 [ET]; Ignatius ad Rom. 2, 2 [ET]; Melito quoted in Eusebius, h. e. 4, 26, 14; with ἡλίου added, Rev 7:2 (R G T Tr WH text); plural, eastern regions, the east (Winer's Grammar, 176 (166)): Mt 2:1; Mt 8:11; Mt 24:27; Lk 13:29 (the Sept., Herodotus, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, others; Philo in Flacc. § 7); with the addition of ἡλίου, Rev 16:12 (λης T Tr text WH text; Rev 7:2 L WH marginal reading).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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