Dict: smith - EAST

smith:

EAST - E>@ - The Hebrew term kedem properly means that which is before or in front of a person, and was applied to the east form the custom of turning in that direction when describing the points of the compass, before, behind, the right and the left representing respectively east, west, south and north. kjv@Job:23:8-9) The term as generally used refers to the lands lying immediately eastward of Palestine, viz., Arabia, Mesopotamia and Babylonia; on the other hand mizrach is used of the far east with a less definite signification. kjv@Isaiah:42:2 kjv@Isaiah:42:25 kjv@Isaiah:43:5 kjv@Isaiah:46:11 )

EASTER - E>@ - kjv@Acts:12:4) In the earlier English versions Easter has been frequently used as the translation of pascha (passover). In the Authorized Version Passover was substituted in all passages but this; and in the new Revision Passover is used here. PASSOVER