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Strong's #6931 - קַדְמֹנִי
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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 former, ancient, ׳יָמִים ק Ezekiel 38:17 former days; ׳שָׁנִים ק Malachi 3:4 ("" יְמֵי עוֺלָם): feminine plural as n., former things Isaiah 43:18 ("" רִאשֹׁנוֺת); masculine singular as collective noun מְשַׁלהַקַּדְמֹנִי 1 Samuel 24:14 a proverb of the ancients.
2 eastern: of שַׁעַר Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 11:1, יָם (i.e. Dead Sea) Ezekiel 47:18 and (opposed to הַיָּם הָאַחֲרוֺן) Zechariah 14:8; Joel 2:20; masculine plural as noun Easterns, those of the east (opposed to west) Job 18:20 (so Ew De Hi Di Bae Du; Vrss earlier and later, so Da and others [both future], Bu former Generations [now in Sh®°ôl], and future).
קַדְמֹנִי m. ־ִית, f. adj.
(1) in front, anterior, Ezekiel 10:19, 11:1 hence
(2) oriental, eastern. הַיָּם הַקַּדְמֹנִי the eastern sea, i.e. the Dead Sea, opp. to the western, i.e. Mediterranean, Ezekiel 47:18; Joel 2:20.
(3) old, ancient, Ezekiel 38:17. Pl. קַדְמֹנִים the elder (amongst contemporaries), Job 18:20. Sing. collect. 1 Samuel 24:14, מְשַׁל הַקַּדְמֹנִי “the proverb of the ancients.” Pl. f. קַדְמֹנִיּוֹת ancient, former, past things, Isaiah 43:18.
(4) [Kadmonites], pr.n. of a Canaanitish nation, Genesis 15:19.