What does ἀνατολή · δυσμή mean in the Bible?
ἀνατολή · δυσμή is a Greek phrase meaning "east and west".
Greek · G395, G1424
ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν
East · west
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ἀνατολή G395 east
Pronunciation anatolḗ
Rising of the sun; the direction where light appears, not merely geographic location.
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δυσμή G1424 west
Pronunciation dysmḗ
West as the direction of sunset; often paired with east (sunrise) to denote geographical extremes.
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What does ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν (anatolōn kai dysmōn) mean in the Bible?
ἀνατολή · δυσμή is a Greek phrase meaning "east and west".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for G395, G1424?
G395, G1424 is connected to 11 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. east and west
Source Gloss
east and west
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 4 Aligned forms 11 Case pattern Genitive (8) Number pattern Singular (7)
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Luke 1:78 1×
Genitive · Plural · Feminine Matt 2:1 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 24:27 · Luke 13:29 4×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Mark 16:8 · Rev 7:2 · Rev 16:12 · Rev 21:13 4×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Matt 2:2 · Matt 2:9 2×
Word Origins
ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain