In four
'arba` (ar-bah')
four -- four.
quarters
ruwach (roo'-akh)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being
were the porters
show`er (sho-are')
a janitor -- doorkeeper, porter.
toward the east
mizrach (miz-rawkh')
sunrise, i.e. the east -- east (side, -ward), (sun-)rising (of the sun).
west
yam (yawm)
from an unused root meaning to roar -- sea (-faring man, (-shore), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
north
tsaphown (tsaw-fone')
hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown) -- north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).
and south
negeb (neh'-gheb)
the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine) -- south (country, side, -ward).
