STRONGS G395:
ἀνατολή,
-ῆς,
ἡ, (from
ἀνατέλλω, which see), as in Greek writings;
1. a rising (of the sun and stars); light rising
ἐξ ὕψους,
Luke 1:78.
2. the east (the quarter of the sun's rising):
Matthew 2:2,
9;
Revelation 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; Ignatius ad Rom. 2, 2;
Melito quoted in Eusebius,
h. e. 4, 26, 14; with
ἡλίου added,
Revelation 7:2 [R G T Tr WH text]; plural, eastern regions,
the east [Winer's Grammar, 176 (166)]:
Matthew 2:1;
Matthew 8:11;
Matthew 24:27;
Luke 13:29 (
Sept., Herodotus, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, others; Philo in Flacc. § 7); with the addition of
ἡλίου,
Revelation 16:12 [
-λῆς T Tr text WH text;
Revelation 7:2 L WH marginal reading].
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