Revelation 16:12:28Rev.16.12.W28TAB
ἀνατολῆς
anatolês
“east”
- Transliteration
- a-na-to-LÊS
- Extended
- ah-nah-toh-LEHS
- IPA
- /a.na.toˈlɛːs/
Meaning by language
- English
- east
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Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
a-na-to-LÊS
- sentence
KAI ho HEK-tos ek-SE-khe-en tên phi-A-lên au-TOU e-PI ton po-ta-MON ton ME-gan ton eu-PHRA-tên KAI ek-xê-RAN-thê to HY-dôr au-TOU HI-na he-toi-mas-THÊ hê ho-DOS tôn ba-si-LE-ôn tôn a-PO a-na-to-LÊS hê-LI-ou
Exegesis
The noun phrase hē hodos tōn basileōn tōn apo anatolēs hēliou {ἡ ὁδὸς τῶν βασιλέων τῶν ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆς ἡλίου | hē ho-dós tôn bas-ilé-ōn tôn apó a-na-to-lḗs hē-lí-ou} uses genitives to designate both the path’s destination “of the kings” and origin “from the rising of the sun,” where apo plus genitive idiomatically denotes “the east.”
Root and etymology
anatellōalpha–nu–alpha–tau–epsilon–lambda–lambda–omicron
“to cause to rise, to spring up”
In context — Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river, the Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way for the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.
About this coordinate
Revelation 16:12:28 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 28 of Revelation 16:12, so the Greek word ἀνατολῆς (anatolês) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Rev.16.12.W28, which extends further down to each syllable (Rev.16.12.W28.S1) and character.