East sea, eastern sea

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

See Bead Sea. EASTER, used in AV as the tr. of tJ Ti<rx.a in Ac 12* ' intending after E. to bring him forth to the people.' RV has substituted correctly ' the Passover.' The anachronism of AV was inlierited from older Vss which avoided, as far as possible, expressions which could not be understood by the people. A. C. Headlah.

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