eastward
part of speech
adverb (eastward or eastwards); adjective (eastward)
meaning for a pupil
1) (adverb) Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward. tree →
2) (adjective) Going or facing towards the east: the eastward road. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Toward the sunrise, as the front side of the Tabernacle court faced. In the primary lessons: In geography and map work «eastward» shows direction — the sun appears to rise in the east and the Earth spins eastward; in maths and maps moving eastward is moving to the right on a normal map. Phrases: «head eastward», «eastward journey», «move eastward».
examples
- And for the east side eastward fifty cubits. (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.' (Torah NUM.34.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. (Writings 1CH.26.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he said: 'Open the window eastward'; and he opened it. (Prophets 2KI.13.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. (Writings 2CH.4.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The storm is moving eastward across the country. tree →
- We drove eastward towards the sunrise. tree →
- The Earth spins eastward, so the sun seems to rise in the east. tree →
- The eastward train leaves at 9. tree →
- On the map, walk 3 squares eastward, then 2 north. tree →
- Birds flew eastward over the sea. tree →
- Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. tree →
note
«Eastwards» with -s is common in the UK; «eastward» in the US. The other directions follow the same pattern: westward, northward, southward. On most maps east is to the right.
In the corpora
- And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
- And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
- and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
- These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eastward» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.