Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
2. (n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
3. (n.) The Western hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
4. (n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
5. (a.) Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
6. (adv.) Westward.
7. (v. i.) To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
International Standard Bible EncyclopediaWEST
(1) Usually (yam), "sea" because the Mediterranean lies to the West of Palestine; not usually in figurative expressions; but compare Hosea 11:10.
Greek1695. Emmaous -- Emmaus, a place 60 stadia (7.5 miles) west of Jer ...
... 1694, 1695. Emmaous. 1696 . Emmaus, a place 60 stadia (7.5 miles) west of Jer. ...
yem Definition Emmaus, a place 60 stadia (7.5 miles) west of Jer. ...
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3033. Libue -- "the west bank of the Nile," Libya, a region in N. ...
1424. dusme -- a setting (as of the sun), by impl. (the) western ...
5566. choros -- the northwest wind
3047. lips -- the southwest wind
978. Bithunia -- Bithynia, a province in Asia Minor
2445. Ioppe -- Joppa, a city of Pal.
2834. Knidos -- Cnidus, a city on the SW coast of Asia Minor
4499. Rhodos -- Rhodes, an island in the Mediterranean
5477. Chanaan -- Canaan, earlier name of Pal.
Strong's Hebrew4628. maarab -- west
maarab or maarabah. 4627, 4628. maarab or maarabah. 4629 . west. Transliteration:
maarab or maarabah Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ar-awb') Short Definition: west ...
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1052. Beth Shean -- "place of quiet," a place in Manasseh, West of ...
3667. Kna'an -- a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West ...
7851. Shittim -- a place East of the Jordan, also a wadi perhaps ...
3667a. Kenaan -- a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West ...
3220. yam -- sea
310. achar -- the hind or following part
8121. shemesh -- sun
3996. mabo -- entrance, a coming in, entering
268. achor -- the hind side, back part
Fades the Glory of the West --
West by Way of the East.
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Affairs in the West
The Tyrants who in the West at that Time Rebelled against Honorius ...
How the West Saxons Received the Word of God by the Preaching of ...
A Letter from a West Indian Cottage Ornee
How Caedwalla, King of the West Saxons, Went to Rome to be ...
The Emperor of the West Requests his Brother to Send Him Three ...
ThesaurusWest (110 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country
or region, is situated in the direction toward the west. ...
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North-west (1 Occurrence)
South-west (1 Occurrence)
Western (19 Occurrences)
Adjoining (16 Occurrences)
Ramah (38 Occurrences)
Ramothgilead (19 Occurrences)
Ramoth-gilead (20 Occurrences)
Ending (22 Occurrences)
Southeast (2 Occurrences)
Bible ConcordanceWest (110 Occurrences)
Matthew 8:11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:31 And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will bring together His own People to Him from north, south, east and west--from one extremity of the world to the other.
Mark 13:27 Then He will send forth the angels and gather together His chosen People from north, south, east and west, from the remotest parts of the earth and the sky.
Mark 16:20 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
Luke 12:54 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say,'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.
Luke 13:29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
Acts 27:12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Revelation 21:13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Genesis 12:8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 13:14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Genesis 28:14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
Exodus 10:19 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
Exodus 26:22 For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
Exodus 26:27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward.
Exodus 27:12 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus 36:27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
Exodus 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
Exodus 38:12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
Numbers 2:18 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Numbers 34:6 "'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border of it : this shall be your west border.
Numbers 35:5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Deuteronomy 3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 11:30 Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?
Deuteronomy 33:23 Of Naphtali he said, "Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of the blessing of Yahweh, Possess the west and the south."
Deuteronomy 34:2 And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;
Joshua 1:4 From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.
Joshua 5:1 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Joshua 8:9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
Joshua 8:12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua 8:13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Joshua 9:1 Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
Joshua 11:2 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
Joshua 11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Joshua 12:7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua 15:8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.
Joshua 15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
Joshua 15:12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.
Joshua 16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea.
Joshua 16:6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.
Joshua 16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;
Joshua 18:12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
Joshua 18:14 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.
Joshua 18:15 The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
Joshua 19:11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
Joshua 19:26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.
Joshua 19:34 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
Joshua 19:46 And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.
Joshua 22:7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
Joshua 23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Judges 18:12 And they went up and put up their tents in Kiriath-jearim in Judah: so that place is named Mahaneh-dan to this day. It is to the west of Kiriath-jearim.
Judges 20:33 So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.
2 Samuel 13:34 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.
1 Kings 4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.
1 Kings 7:25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
1 Chronicles 7:28 Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
1 Chronicles 9:24 On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles 12:15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1 Chronicles 26:16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.
1 Chronicles 26:18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
1 Chronicles 26:30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
2 Chronicles 4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
2 Chronicles 33:14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
Job 18:20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
Job 23:8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;
Psalms 75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms 107:3 And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
Isaiah 9:12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 11:14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
Isaiah 24:14 But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.
Isaiah 24:15 Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.
Isaiah 43:5 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
Isaiah 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim."
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
Ezekiel 41:12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Ezekiel 41:15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
Ezekiel 42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 46:19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.
Ezekiel 47:20 The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
Ezekiel 48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.
Ezekiel 48:10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.
Ezekiel 48:16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
Ezekiel 48:17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
Ezekiel 48:18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
Ezekiel 48:21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.
Ezekiel 48:23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.
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