ἀνατολή

ἀνατολή — anatolḗ

ἀνατολή, ἀνατολῆς, ἡ (from ἀνατέλλω, which see), as in Greek writings;

1. a rising (of the sun and stars); light rising ἐξ ὕψους, Luk 1:78.

2. the east (the quarter of the sun's rising): Mat 2:2; Mat 2:9; Rev 21:13 (Griesbach ἀνατολῶν); Herodian, 2, 8, 18 (10); 3, 5, 1; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 14, 3 (6; 1, 26, 6; Mar 16:1-20 WH (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'); Clement of Rome, 1Co 5:1-13; 1Co 6:1-20 [ET]; Ignatius ad Rom 2:1-29; Rom 2:1-29 [ET]; Melito quoted in Eusebius, h. e. 4, 26, 14; with ἡλίου added, Rev 7:2 (R G T Tr WH text); plural, eastern regions, the east (Winer's Grammar, 176 (166)): Mat 2:1; Mat 8:11; Mat 24:27; Luk 13:29 (the Sept., Herodotus, Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, others; Philo in Flacc. § 7); with the addition of ἡλίου, Rev 16:12 (λης T Tr text WH text; Rev 7:2 L WH marginal reading).