STRONGS NUMBER H4217


Word Summary
mizrach: place of sunrise, the east
Original Word: מִזְרָח
Transliteration: mizrach
Phonetic Spelling: (miz-rawkh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: place of sunrise, the east
Meaning: place of sunrise, the east
Strong's Concordance
east side, sunrise

From zarach; sunrise, i.e. The east -- east (side, -ward), (sun-)rising (of the sun).

see HEBREW zarach

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4217. mizrach

מִזְרָחnoun [masculine] place of sunrise, east — absolute ׳מJoshua 11:3 21t.; construct מִזְרַחNumbers 21:10 19t., with ה‎ locative מִזְרָ֫חָהExodus 27:13 28t., construct מִזְרְחָהDeuteronomy 4:41; Joshua 12:1; Judges 21:19 (not in Genesis Leviticus Samuel Ezekiel etc.); —

1 sunrise always of quarter of the heavens = east ׳מ (ה)שׁמשׁNumbers 21:11 (P), Deuteronomy 4:41, 47; Joshua 1:15; 12:1; 13:5 (all D), 19:12, 27, 34 (all P), Judges 20:43; 21:19; 2 Kings 10:33; Isaiah 41:25; 45:6; 59:19, compare ׳מ לארץ שׁמשׁJudges 11:18; ׳מִמִּז וְעַדמְֿבוֺאוֺ שׁמשׁPsalm 50:1; 113:3; Malachi 1:11; more often

2 without שֶׁמֶשׁ‎:

a. the east מִמַּעֲרָב֑ מ ׳כִּרְחֹקPsalm 103:12.

b. ׳מִמּfrom the east Isaiah 41:2; 43:5 (opposed to מִמַּעֲרָב‎), 46:11; Daniel 11:44 (+ מִצַּפוֺן‎); וּמִיָּם מִצָּפוֺן וּמִמַּעֲרָב֑ ׳מִמּPsalm 107:3.

c. to or toward the place of sunrise, to the east, eastward:-1מִוְרָ֫חָהNumbers 32:19 (P), Deuteronomy 3:17, 27, 1 Chronicles 26:17 (+ לַנֶּ֫גְבָּה לַצָּפ֫וֺנָה,‎), Nehemiah 3:26; לַמִּזְרָ֫חָה2 Chronicles 31:14; (4) ׳אֶלהַֿמּDaniel 8:9 (+ אֶלהַֿצֶּבִ֑י אֶלהַֿנֶּגֶב,‎); (5) רָךְ עַדמִֿזְ וּמִצָּפוֺן עָדיָֿם מִיָּםAmos 8:12.

d. (on) the east side of, construct יְרִיחוֺ מִזְרַה קְצֵהJoshua 4:19 (P); also with לְ הַנָּ֑יְא לְמִזְרַח1 Chronicles 4:39, ׳לְמ הַיַּרְדֵּן6:63; with ׳מִמִּז מִן,Joshua 11:3 (opposed to מִיָּם‎) compare 17:10 (+ מצָּפוֺן‎; both J E), also 16:6 (P).

e. after a construct מ ׳עַלכָּֿלמְּֿנֵי לגלעד1 Chronicles 5:10; הַמּ ׳רְחוֺב2 Chronicles 29:4; הַמּ ׳שַׁעַרNehemiah 3:29; מ ׳אֶרֶץZechariah 8:7 (opposed to הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ מְבוֺא ארץ‎).