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Strong's #6927 - קַדְמָה
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- antiquity, former state or estate or situation, before, origin
- antiquity, beginning, origin
- former state or situation conj
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2698) mdq (קדמ QDM) AC: Face CO: East AB: Before: The place of the rising sun. The Hebrews recognized the east as the top of the four compass points (contrary to our understanding of north) and is the direction faced when orienting direction. The past is understood as what is in front, or before, you as the past is known (contrary to our understanding of the future being in front of us) . [from: md- the red color blood combined with the quph as the rising sun, hence the "rising sun of blood"]
V) mdq (קדמ QDM) - Face: To go or meet face to face. To go before someone or something in space or time. KJV (26): (vf: Hiphil, Piel) prevent, before, met, come, disappoint, go - Strongs: H6923 (קָדַם)
Nm) mdq (קדמ QDM) - I. East: II. Ancient:A distant past. III. Before:In front or to the face. Also a time before. KJV (87): east, old, eastward, ancient, before, aforetime, eternal - Strongs: H6924 (קֵדְמָה)
Nf1) emdq (קדמה QDMH) - Before: Something in front, or to the face. A time past. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (8): former, old, afore, antiquity, ago, aforetime - Strongs: H6927 (קַדְמָה), H6928 (קַדְמָה)
bm) midq (קדימ QDYM) - East: KJV (69): east, eastward - Strongs: H6921 (קָדִם)
dm) mfdq (קדומ QDWM) - Ancient: A distant past. KJV (1): ancient - Strongs: H6917 (קְדוּמִים)
ef1) emdiq (קידמה QYDMH) - East: KJV (4): east, eastward - Strongs: H6926 (קִדְמָה)
fm) imdq (קדמי QDMY) - First: As what came before. [Aramaic only] KJV (3): first - Strongs: H6933 (קַדְמָי)
gm) mdfq (קודמ QWDM) - Before: Something in front, or to the face. [Aramaic only] KJV (42): before, him - Strongs: H6925 (קְדָם)
jm) nfmdq (קדמונ QDMWN) - East: KJV (1): east - Strongs: H6930 (קַדְמוֹן)
jfm) infmdq (קדמוני QDMWNY) - I. East: II. Ancient:A distant past. III. Before:In front or to the face. Also a time before. KJV (10): east, former, ancient, before, old - Strongs: H6931 (קַדְמֹנִי)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 antiquity, beginning, suffix קַדְמָתָהּ Isaiah 23:7 (of Tyre).
2 former state, suffix קַדְמָתָן Ezekiel 16:55 (twice in verse), קַדְמַתְכֶן Ezekiel 16:55; plural suffix קַדְמוֺתֵיכֶם Ezekiel 36:11. 3 construct singular =
conjunction before (temporal; Aramaic) שֶׁקַּדְמַת שָׁלַף Psalm 129:6.
[קַדְמָה] noun feminine former time (compare Biblical Hebrew קַדְמָה, Zinjirli קדמה (Cooke177), former state); — construct Daniel 6:11 מִןקַּֿדְמַת דְּנָה = before this, formerly; so Ezra 5:11 ׳מִקַּדְמַת דְּ. compare Genesis 28:19 ᵑ7 J, Ezekiel 38:17 ᵑ7.
קַדְמָה f. beginning, origin, Isaiah 23:7, מִימֵי קֶדֶם קַדְמָתָהּ “whose origin (is to be sought) of ancient days” (speaking of Tyre); a former, pristine state, Ezekiel 16:55. Constr. state becomes a prepos., and, by omission of אֲשֶׁר, a conj. before that, Psalms 129:6.
קַדְמָה Ch. former time; hence מִן־קַדְמַת דְּנָה Daniel 6:11 מִקַּדְמַת־דְּנָא Ezra 5:11, formerly.
