ἈΝΑΤΟΛΗΝ, ἀνατολην
ANATOLĒN, anatolēn
Sounds Like: ah-nah-toh-LEN
Translations: east, a rising, dawn, a branch, a shoot
From the root: ἈΝΑΤΟΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the direction of the east, where the sun rises. It can also metaphorically refer to the rising of the sun itself, or the dawn. In some contexts, it can also mean a sprout or a shoot, particularly in prophetic or messianic contexts, referring to a descendant or a new beginning. It is a feminine noun.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0395 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 1:37
- Book 3 — 6:146
- Book 8 — 3:65, 3:86
- Book 9 — 3:39, 8:159
- Book 11 — 5:154
- Book 18 — 2:54
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:4
- Book Two — 16:20
- Book Three — 1:3
- Book Four — 8:2
- Book Five — 2:24, 4:10, 6:5, 12:17
- Book Seven — 6:8
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΤΟΛΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΝΑΤΟΛΑΙ — east, the east, rising, the rising, sunrise, the sunrises
- ἈΝΑΤΟΛΑΙΣ — (to) the east, (at) the east, (in) the east, (to) the sunrise, (at) the sunrise, (in) the sunrise, (to) the rising, (at) the rising, (in) the rising
- ἈΝΑΤΟΛΑΣ — east, the east, sunrise, the risings, the sunrises
- ἈΝΑΤΟΛΗ — east, dawn, sunrise, rising, a rising, a dawn
- ἈΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ — of rising, of dawn, of the east, of the sunrise
- ἈΝΑΤΟΛΩΝ — of the east, of the risings, of the sunrise
- ἘΞἈΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ — from the east, from the rising
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