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the Greek pascha (the Passover). When the Authorized Version (1611) was formed, the word “passover” was used in all passages in which this word pascha occurred, except in Act 12:4. In the Revised Version the proper word, “passover,” is always used.
•EAST GATE (Jeremiah 19:2), properly the Potter’s gate, the gate which led to the potter’s field, in the valley of Hinnom.
•EAST SEA (Joel 2:20; Ezekiel 47:18), the Dead Sea, which lay on the east side of the Holy Land. The Mediterranean, which lay on the west, was hence called the “great sea for the west border” (Numbers 34:6).