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Monday, November 25th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34

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Strong's #6924 - קֵדְמָה

Transliteration

qedem

Phonetics

keh'-dem, kayd'-maw

Origin

from (H6923)

Parts of Speech

adverb, masculine noun

TWOT

1988a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

n m
1. east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime
  1. front, from the front or east, in front, mount of the East
  2. ancient time, aforetime, ancient, from of old, earliest time
  3. anciently, of old (adverb)
  4. beginning
  5. east
adv
1. eastward, to or toward the East

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 165 ‑ αἰών (ahee‑ohn'); 395 ‑ ἀνατολή (an‑at‑ol‑ay'); 744 ‑ ἀρχαῖος (ar‑khah'‑yos); 746 ‑ ἀρχή (ar‑khay'); 1715 ‑ ἔμπροσθεν (em'‑pros‑then); 2246 ‑ ἥλιος (hay'‑lee‑os);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (85)

Genesis 12

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 4

Judges 5

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 11

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 6

Jonah 1

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

BSB (85)

Genesis 12

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 5

Judges 5

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 2

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 11

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 6

Jonah 1

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

CSB (54)

Genesis 12

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 5

Judges 5

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 2

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 10

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 6

Jonah 1

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

ESV (82)

Genesis 12

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 5

Judges 5

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 2

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 11

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 6

Jonah 1

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

KJV (86)

Genesis 11

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 5

Judges 5

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 2

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 11

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 6

Jonah 1

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

LEB (78)

Genesis 8

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 4

Judges 5

1 Kings 2

2 Kings 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 11

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 5

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (86)

Genesis 12

Exodus 2

Leviticus 2

Numbers 10

Deuteronomy 2

Joshua 4

Judges 5

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 2

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 11

Proverbs 2

Isaiah 9

Jeremiah 3

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 6

Jonah 1

Micah 2

Habakkuk 1

Zechariah 1

ASV (85)

also shall be as aforetime 1

and before 1

and eastward 1

and for the east 1

and from ancient times 1

and on the east 1

and the east 1

and to the east 1

are from of old 1

art not thou from everlasting 1

as of old 1

at the east 1

before 3

east 2

eastward 9

for the east 1

forward 1

is of ancient 1

it of ancient 2

of ancient 2

of it on the east 1

of old 15

of the ancient 1

of the east 13

on the east 6

on the east part 1

on the east side 5

the eternal 1

thee eastward 1

this from ancient time 1

toward the east 2

unto the east 1

which are of old 1

which is on the east side 1

with customs from the east 1

your east 1

BSB (85)

and ancient times 1

and before 1

and east 2

and the east 1

and your eastern 1

are of old 1

as in days of old 1

as of old 1

at the southeast corner 2

before 1

began 1

east 6

eastward 4

for the ages 1

from everlasting 1

from of old 1

from the east 1

from the eastern 1

gone by 1

in the east 1

in the eastern 1

is from antiquity 1

long ago 4

of eastern 1

of it 1

of long ago 1

of old 10

of the ancient 1

of the east 13

on the east 3

on the east side 4

past 1

the beginning 1

the east 3

the eastern 1

the eternal 1

to the east 4

toward the east 2

were bowing to the east 1

with influences from the east 1

CSB (54)

ago 3

ancient 1

as in former times 1

as in past days 1

before 1

east 4

eastern 1

eastward 3

from long ago 1

gone by 2

long ago 2

of old 2

of the east 2

old 1

side 1

the ancient 1

the east 23

the eastern 4

ESV (82)

ago 1

ancient 3

ancient times 1

before 1

beginning 1

east 39

east side 3

eastern 3

eastward 5

eternal 1

everlasting 1

forward 1

long 1

old 20

side 1

KJV (86)

aforetime 1

ancient 6

before 3

country 1

east 32

eastward 11

end 1

eternal 1

ever 1

everlasting 1

forward 1

old 17

part 1

parts 1

past 1

side 5

time 1

times 1

LEB (78)

⌊ancient time⌋ 1

⌊former times⌋ 1

ancient 1

ancient times 1

and for the eastward 1

and in front 1

and to the east 2

as of old 2

before 3

east 1

for the east 1

forward 1

from of old 1

her origin 1

it to the east 1

long ago 9

of old 2

old 6

on the east 1

on the eastern 1

on the eastern side 1

primeval time 1

s surface on the eastern side 1

the ancient 1

the beginning of 1

the east 21

the east side 1

the eastern 3

them away eastward 1

to the east 6

toward the east 2

your eastern 1

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (86)

also shall be as before 1

and before 1

and eastward 1

and from ancient times 1

and on the east 1

and to the east 1

are from of old 1

as of old 1

at the east 1

before 2

east 3

eastward 10

for the east 2

forever 1

from the east 1

in front 1

is of ancient 1

it in ancient 1

it of ancient 1

of ancient 2

of old 14

of the ancient 1

of the east 13

of the house eastward 1

on the east 7

on the east part 1

on the east side 5

the east 1

the eternal 1

this from ancient time 1

to the east 1

toward the east 2

which are of old 1

which is on the east side 1

your east 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2698) m d q (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) m d q (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)

N^m) m d q (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)

N^f1) e m d q (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)

b^m) m i d q (קדימ QDYM) - East: KJV (69): east, eastward - Strongs: H6921 (קָדִם)

d^m) m f d q (קדומ QDWM) - Ancient: A distant past. KJV (1): ancient - Strongs: H6917 (קְדוּמִים)

e^f1) e m d i q (קידמה QYDMH) - East: KJV (4): east, eastward - Strongs: H6926 (קִדְמָה)

f^m) i m d q (קדמי QDMY) - First: As what came before. [Aramaic only] KJV (3): first - Strongs: H6933 (קַדְמָי)

g^m) m d f q (קודמ QWDM) - Before: Something in front, or to the face. [Aramaic only] KJV (42): before, him - Strongs: H6925 (קְדָם)

j^m) n f m d q (קדמונ QDMWN) - East: KJV (1): east - Strongs: H6930 (קַדְמוֹן)

jf^m) i n f m d q (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)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

קֶ֫דֶם noun [masculine] front, east, aforetime; — absolute׳ק Deuteronomy 33:27 +, קֶ֑קֶם Judges 8:10 +; construct קֶדֶם Proverbs 8:22; once plural construct קַדְמֵי Proverbs 8:23; —

1 location

a. front, ׳מִקּ Isaiah 9:11 from the front (i.e. East), in front (opposed to מֵאָחוֺר), ׳אָחוֺר וָק Psalm 139:5 behind and before; אֶהֳלֹךְ׳ק Job 23:8 I go forward (opposed to אָחוֺר)

b. East: ׳הַרהַֿקּ Genesis 10:30 (J) mount of the East; ׳בְּנֵיקֿ = dwellers in the east, tribes east or northeast of Canaan Genesis 29:1 (E), Judges 6:3,33; Judges 7:12; Judges 8:10; 1 Kings 5:10; Isaiah 11:14; Jeremiah 49:28; Ezekiel 25:4,10; Job 1:3; ׳הַרְרֵי ק Numbers 23:7, see Di Sachau: Reise (1883), 159 ff.165 ff. Dr in Hast.^PETHOS; ׳אֶרֶץ ק Genesis 25:6 (J); מָֽלְאוּ מִקֶּדֶם Isaiah 2:6 they are full from the east (insert probablyקֶסֶם, מִקְסָם, or < קֹסְמִים before ׳מִקּ, compare Lo De Du Che^Hpt Di-Kit); elsewhere ׳מִקּ = eastward: (I) in the east Genesis 2:8 (2) on the eastern (side) Genesis 12:8 (J) Zechariah 14:4; לְ׳מִקּ on the east of Genesis 3:24 (J), Genesis 12:8 (J), Numbers 34:(P), Joshua 7:2 (JE), Judges 8:11; Ezekiel 11:23 = Jonah 4:5; -3 eastward, with verb of motion Genesis 11:2; Genesis 13:11 (both J).

2 temporal, ancient time, aforetime:

a. ׳הַרְרֵי ק Deuteronomy 33:15 ancient mountains, compare ׳אֱלֹהֵי ק Deuteronomy 33:27, ׳מַלְכֵיקֿ Isaiah 19:11, ׳בִּשְׁמֵי שְׁמֵיקֿ Psalm 68:34.

b.׳כִּימֵי ק Psalm 44:2 in ancient days; compare ׳מִימֵי ק from of old Isaiah 23:7; Micah 7:20; Lamentations 1:7; Lamentations 2:17; Isaiah 37:26 = ׳לְמִימֵי ק) 2 Kings 19:25 (see מִן 9b (2)); ׳כִּימֵי ק Isaiah 51:9; Jeremiah 46:26; ׳יַרְחֵי ק Job 29:2 months of old.

c.׳מִקּ from of old Micah 5:1; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 46:10; Habakkuk 1:12; Nehemiah 12:46; Psalm 77:12 ׳מִנִּיק 7; Psalm 8:2 springing out of, derived from, ancient times (compare Dr); ׳יָמִים מִקּ Psalm 77:6; Psalm 143:5 days from of old.

d.׳ק alone, as adverb anciently, of old Psalm 74:2; Psalm 119:152; ׳כְּק Jeremiah 30:20; Lamentations 5:21; ׳ישֵׁב ק Psalm 55:20 he that sitteth (enthroned from) of old.

e. beginning, מִקַּדְמֵיאָֿ֑רֶץ Proverbs 8:23 from the beginnings of the earth; מִפְעָלָיו׳ק Proverbs 8:22 the beginning of his works ("" רֵאשִׁית).

[קֵ֫דֶם], with ה locative I. קֵ֫דְמָה

adverb eastward, to, toward, the east; — Genesis 25:6 (J), Leviticus 1:16; Leviticus 16:14; Numbers 34:3,11,15; Joshua 19:12,13 (all P), 1 Kings 7:39 2 Chronicles 4:10; 1 Kings 17:3 = 2 Kings 13:17; Ezekiel 8:16 (twice in verse); + north, south, west, Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:14 (both J), Numbers 2:3; Numbers 3:28; Numbers 10:5 (north, west, in ᵐ5), Numbers 34:10 (all P); also as

noun after מְּאַת = eastern side, Exodus 27:13; Exodus 38:13 (both P), + W Ezekiel 45:7 (strike out Co; read קֶדֶם Berthol Toy Krae), + north, south, west, Numbers 35:5; Joshua 18:20 so ׳גְּבוּל ק Joshua 15:5 (all P).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

קֵדְמָה (“eastward”), [Kedemah], pr.n. of a son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:15.

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List of Word Forms

הַקֶּֽדֶם׃ הקדם׃ וָקֵ֖דְמָה וָקֵ֥דְמָה וָקֶ֣דֶם וּמִקֶּ֖דֶם ומקדם וקדם וקדמה כְּקֶ֔דֶם כְּקֶֽדֶם׃ כקדם כקדם׃ מִקֶּ֑דֶם מִקֶּ֔דֶם מִקֶּ֖דֶם מִקֶּ֗דֶם מִקֶּ֛דֶם מִקֶּ֜דֶם מִקֶּ֣דֶם מִקֶּ֥דֶם מִקֶּ֨דֶם מִקֶּדֶם֒ מִקַּדְמֵי־ מקדם מקדמי־ קֵ֑דְמָה קֵ֔דְמָה קֵ֖דְמָה קֵ֙דְמָה֙ קֵ֚דְמָה קֵ֣דְמָה קֵ֥דְמָה קֵֽדְמָה׃ קֶ֑דֶם קֶ֔דֶם קֶ֖דֶם קֶ֗דֶם קֶ֙דֶם֙ קֶ֜דֶם קֶ֣דֶם קֶ֤דֶם קֶּ֗דֶם קֶֽדֶם׃ קדם קדם׃ קדמה קדמה׃ hakKedem haq·qe·ḏem haqqeḏem kə·qe·ḏem Kedem Kedemah keKedem kəqeḏem mikkadmei mikKedem miq·qaḏ·mê- miq·qe·ḏem miqqaḏmê- miqqeḏem qê·ḏə·māh qe·ḏem qeḏem qêḏəmāh ū·miq·qe·ḏem umikKedem ūmiqqeḏem vaKedem vaKedemah wā·qê·ḏə·māh wā·qe·ḏem wāqeḏem wāqêḏəmāh