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Lexicon :: Strong's H6924 - qeḏem

Aa
קֶדֶם
Transliteration
qeḏem
Pronunciation
keh'-dem
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Part of Speech
adverb, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1988a

Strong’s Definitions

קֶדֶם qedem, keh'-dem; or קֵדְמָה qêdᵉmâh; from H6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward):—aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, × ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's H6924 in the following manner: east (32x), old (17x), eastward (11x), ancient (6x), east side (5x), before (3x), east part (2x), ancient time (2x), aforetime (1x), eternal (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's H6924 in the following manner: east (32x), old (17x), eastward (11x), ancient (6x), east side (5x), before (3x), east part (2x), ancient time (2x), aforetime (1x), eternal (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
masculine noun
  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

      adverb
  2. eastward, to or toward the East

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קֶדֶם qedem, keh'-dem; or קֵדְמָה qêdᵉmâh; from H6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward):—aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, × ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926.
STRONGS H6924: Abbreviations
קֶ֫דֶם noun [masculine] front, east, aforetime; — absoluteק׳ 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 CheHpt Di-Kit); elsewhere מִקּ׳ =eastward:
(1) 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; -3eastward, 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 Greek Version of the LXX), Numbers 34:10 (all P); also as noun after פְּאַת = 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).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H6925.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:8; 3:24; 10:30; 11:2; 12:8; 12:8; 13:11; 13:14; 25:6; 25:6; 28:14; 29:1

Exodus

27:13; 38:13

Leviticus

1:16; 16:14

Numbers

2:3; 3:28; 10:5; 23:7; 34; 34:3; 34:10; 34:11; 34:15; 35:5

Deuteronomy

33:15; 33:27; 33:27

Joshua

7:2; 15:5; 18:20; 19:12; 19:13

Judges

6:3; 6:33; 7:12; 8:10; 8:10; 8:11

1 Kings

5:10; 7:39; 17:3

2 Kings

13:17; 19:25

2 Chronicles

4:10

Nehemiah

12:46

Job

1:3; 23:8; 29:2

Psalms

8:2; 44:2; 55:20; 68:34; 74:2; 77:6; 77:12; 119:152; 139:5; 143:5

Proverbs

8:22; 8:22; 8:23; 8:23

Isaiah

2:6; 9:11; 11:14; 19:11; 23:7; 37:26; 45:21; 46:10; 51:9

Jeremiah

30:20; 46:26; 49:28

Lamentations

1:7; 2:17; 5:21

Ezekiel

8:16; 11:23; 25:4; 25:10; 45:7

Jonah

4:5

Micah

5:1; 7:20

Habakkuk

1:12

Zechariah

14:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6924 matches the Hebrew קֶדֶם (qeḏem),
which occurs 87 times in 83 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 2:8–Psa 74:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - The LORD H3068 God H430 planted H5193 a garden H1588 toward H4480 the east H6924, in Eden H5731; and there H8033 He placed H7760 the man H120 whom H834 He had formed H3335.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - So He drove H1644 the man H120 out H1644; and at the east H6924 of the Garden H1588 of Eden H5731 He stationed H7931 the cherubim H3742 and the flaming H3858 sword H2719 which turned H2015 every direction to guard H8104 the way H1870 to the tree H6086 of life H2416.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:30 - Now their [fn]settlement H4186 [fn]extended H1961 from Mesha H4852 [fn]going H935 toward Sephar H5611, the hill H2022 country H2022 of the east H6924.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And it came H1961 about H1961, as they journeyed H5265 [fn]east H6924, that they found H4672 a plain H1237 in the land H776 of Shinar H8152 and [fn]settled H3427 there H8033.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - Then he proceeded H6275 from there H8033 to the mountain H2022 on the east H6924 of Bethel H1008, and pitched H5186 his tent H168 with Bethel H1008 on the west H3220 and Ai H5857 on the east H6924; and there H8033 he built H1129 an altar H4196 to the LORD H3068 and called H7121 upon the name H8034 of the LORD H3068.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot H3876 chose H977 for himself all H3605 the [fn]vicinity H3603 of the Jordan H3383, and Lot H3876 journeyed H5265 eastward H6924. So they separated H6504 from each H376 other H251.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 -

The LORD H3068 said H559 to Abram H87, after H310 Lot H3876 had separated H6504 from him, “Now H4994 raise H5375 your eyes H5869 and look H7200 from the place H4725 where H834 H8033 you are, northward H6828 and southward H5045, and eastward H6924 and westward H3220;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6 - but to the sons H1121 of [fn]his concubines H6370, Abraham H85 gave H5414 gifts H4979 while he was still H5750 living H2416, and sent H7971 them away H7971 from his son H1121 Isaac H3327 eastward H6924, to the land H776 of the east H6924.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your [fn]descendants H2233 will also be like the dust H6083 of the earth H776, and you will [fn]spread H6555 out H6555 to the west H3220 and to the east H6924, and to the north H6828 and to the south H5045; and in you and in your [fn]descendants H2233 shall all H3605 the families H4940 of the earth H127 be blessed H1288.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 -

Then Jacob H3290 [fn]set H5375 out H5375 on H5375 his journey H7272, and went H1980 to the land H776 of the [fn]people H1121 of the east H6924.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:13 - “The width H7341 of the courtyard H2691 on the [fn]east H4217 H6924 side H6285 shall be fifty H2572 cubits H520.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:13 - For the [fn]east H4217 H6924 side H6285, fifty H2572 cubits H520.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:16 - ‘He shall also remove H5493 its craw H4760 with its feathers H5133 and throw H7993 it beside H681 the altar H4196 eastward H6924, to the place H4725 of the fatty H1880 ashes H1880.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 - “Moreover, he shall take H3947 some H4480 of the blood H1818 of the bull H6499 and sprinkle H5137 it with his finger H676 on the atoning H3727 cover H3727 on the east H6924 side; also in front H6440 of the atoning H3727 cover H3727 he shall sprinkle H5137 some H4480 of the blood H1818 with his finger H676 seven H7651 times H6471.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - “Now those who camp H2583 on the east H6924 side H6924 toward the sunrise H4217 shall be of the flag H1714 of the camp H4264 of Judah H3063, by their armies H6635; and the leader H5387 of the sons H1121 of Judah H3063: Nahshon H5177 the son H1121 of Amminadab H5992,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 -

Now those who were to camp H2583 in front H6440 of the tabernacle H4908 eastward H6924, in front H6440 of the tent H168 of meeting H4150 toward the sunrise H4217, were Moses H4872 and Aaron H175 and his sons H1121, performing H8104 the duties H4931 of the sanctuary H4720 for the obligation H4931 of the sons H1121 of Israel H3478; but the [fn]layman H2114 coming H7131 near H7131 was to be put H4191 to H4191 death H4191.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5 - “And when you blow H8628 an alarm H8643, the camps H4264 that are pitched H2583 on the east H6924 side H6924 shall set H5265 out H5265.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - And he took H5375 up H5375 his discourse H4912 and said H559,

“From Aram H6307 Balak H1111 has brought H5148 me,

Moab’s H4124 king H4428 from the mountains H2022 of the East H6924, saying,

‘Come H1980, declare H779 Jacob H3290 cursed H779 for me,

And come H1980, curse H2194 Israel H3478!’

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - ‘Your southern H5045 region H6285 shall [fn]extend H1961 from the wilderness H4057 of Zin H6790 along H5921 the side H3027 of Edom H123, and your southern H5045 border H1366 shall [fn]extend H1961 from the end H7097 of the Salt H4417 Sea H3220 eastward H6924.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:10 -

‘For your eastern H6924 border H1366 you shall also draw H8376 a H8376 boundary H8376 from Hazar-enan H2704 to Shepham H8221,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11 - and the border H1366 shall go H3381 down H3381 from Shepham H8221 to Riblah H7247 on the east H6924 side of Ain H5871; and the border H1366 shall go H3381 down H3381 and reach H4229 to the slope H3802 on the east H6924 side H6924 of the Sea H3220 of Chinnereth H3672.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - “The two H8147 and a half H2677 tribes H4294 have received H3947 their possession H5159 across H4480 H5676 the Jordan H3383 opposite Jericho H3405, eastward H6924 toward the sunrise H4217.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - “You shall also measure H4058 outside H4480 H2351 the city H5892 on the east H6924 side H6285 two thousand H505 cubits H520, on the south H5045 side H6285 two thousand H505 cubits H520, on the west H3220 side H6285 two thousand H505 cubits H520, and on the north H6828 side H6285 two thousand H505 cubits H520, with the city H5892 in the center H8432. This H2088 shall become H1961 theirs H1992 as pasture H4054 lands H4054 for the cities H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:15 -

And with the [fn]best H7218 things H7218 of the ancient H6924 mountains H2022,

With the choice H4022 things H4022 of the everlasting H5769 hills H1389,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 -

“The eternal H6924 God H430 is a [fn]hiding H4585 place H4585,

And underneath H8478 are the everlasting H5769 arms H2220;

And He drove H1644 out H1644 the enemy H340 from you,

And said H559, ‘Destroy H8045!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 -

Now Joshua H3091 sent H7971 men H376 from Jericho H3405 to Ai H5857, which H834 is near H5973 Beth-aven H1007, east H6924 of Bethel H1008, and said H559 to them, “[fn]Go H5927 up H5927 and spy H7270 out H7270 the land H776.” So the men H376 went H5927 up H5927 and spied H7270 out H7270 Ai H5857.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - The eastern H6924 border H1366 was the Salt H4417 Sea H3220, as far H5704 as the [fn]mouth H7097 of the Jordan H3383. And the border H1366 of the north H6828 side H6285 was from the bay H3956 of the sea H3220 at the [fn]mouth H7097 of the Jordan H3383.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - Moreover, the Jordan H3383 was its border H1379 on the east H6924 side H6285. This H2088 was the inheritance H5159 of the sons H1121 of Benjamin H1144 according to their families H4940, and according to its borders H1367 all H5439 around H5439.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:12 - Then it turned H7725 from Sarid H8301 to the east H6924 toward the sunrise H4217 H8121 as far H5921 as the border H1366 of Chisloth-tabor H3696, and it proceeded H3318 to Daberath H1705 and [fn]up to Japhia H3309.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:13 - From there H8033 it continued H5674 eastward H6924 toward the sunrise H4217 to Gath-hepher H1662, to Eth-kazin H6278, and it proceeded H3318 to Rimmon H7417 [fn]which stretches H8388 to Neah H5269.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - For whenever H1961 H518 Israel H3478 had sown H2232, the Midianites H4080 would come H5927 up H5927 with the Amalekites H6002 and the [fn]people H1121 of the east H6924 and [fn]march H5927 against H5921 them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 -

Then all H3605 the Midianites H4080, the Amalekites H6002, and the [fn]people H1121 of the east H6924 assembled H622 together H3162; and they crossed H5674 over H5674 and camped H2583 in the Valley H6010 of Jezreel H3157.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites H4080, the Amalekites H6002, and all H3605 the [fn]people H1121 of the east H6924 were lying H5307 in the valley H6010 as numerous H7230 as locusts H697; and their camels H1581 were without H369 number H4557, as numerous H7230 as the sand H2344 on the seashore H3220 H8193.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah H2078 and Zalmunna H6759 were in Karkor H7174, and their [fn]armies H4264 with them, about fifteen H2568 H6240 thousand H505 men, all H3605 who were left H3498 of the entire H3605 [fn]army H4264 of the [fn]people H1121 of the east H6924; for the fallen H5307 were 120,000 H3967 H6242 H505 [fn]swordsmen H376 H8025 H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon H1439 went H5927 up H5927 by the way H1870 of those who lived H7931 in tents H168 to the east H6924 of Nobah H5025 and Jogbehah H3011, and he [fn]attacked H5221 the camp H4264 when the camp H4264 was unsuspecting H983.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - Solomon’s H8010 wisdom H2451 surpassed H7235 the wisdom H2451 of all H3605 the [fn]people H1121 of the east H6924 and all H3605 the wisdom H2451 of Egypt H4714.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - Then he placed H5414 the stands H4350, five H2568 on the right H3225 side H3802 of the house H1004 and five H2568 on the left H8040 side H3802 of the house H1004; and he set H5414 the [fn]Sea H3220 of cast metal on the right H3233 side H3802 of the house H1004 eastward H6924 toward H4480 H4136 the south H5045.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3 - “Go H1980 away from here H2088 and turn H6437 eastward H6924, and hide H5641 yourself by the brook H5158 Cherith H3747, which H834 is [fn]east H5921 H6440 of the Jordan H3383.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:17 - And he said H559, “Open H6605 the window H2474 toward the east H6924,” and he opened H6605 it. Then Elisha H477 said H559, “Shoot H3384!” So he shot H3384. And he said H559, “The LORD’S H3068 arrow H2671 of victory H8668, and the arrow H2671 of victory H8668 over Aram H758; for you will [fn]defeat H5221 the Arameans H758 at Aphek H663 until H5704 you have put H3615 an H3615 end H3615 to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 -

‘Have you not heard H8085?

Long H7350 ago H7350 I did H6213 it;

From ancient H6924 times H3117 H6924 I planned H3335 it.

Now H6258 I have brought H935 it about H935,

That you would turn H1961 H7582 fortified H1219 cities H5892 into ruined H5327 heaps H1530.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:10 - He put H5414 the Sea H3220 on the right H3233 side H3802 of the house toward the southeast H4136 H5045.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:46 - For in the days H3117 of David H1732 and Asaph H623, in ancient H6924 times H6924, there were [fn]leaders H7218 of the singers H7891, songs H7892 of praise H8416 and songs H3034 of thanksgiving H3034 to God H430.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - His possessions H4735 were seven H7651 thousand H505 sheep H6629, three H7969 thousand H505 camels H1581, five H2568 hundred H3967 yoke H6776 of oxen H1241, five H2568 hundred H3967 female H860 donkeys H860, and very H3966 many H7227 servants H5657; and that man H376 was the greatest H1419 of all H3605 the [fn]men H1121 of the east H6924.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:8 -

“Behold H2005, I go H1980 forward H6924 but He is not there,

And backward H268, but I cannot H3808 perceive H995 Him;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:2 -

“Oh H4310 H5414 that H4310 H5414 I were as in months H3391 gone H6924 by H6924,

As in the days H3117 when God H433 watched H8104 over me;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:1 -

For the music director. A [fn]Maskil of the sons of Korah.

God H430, we have heard H8085 with our ears H241,

Our fathers H1 have told H5608 us

The work H6467 that You did H6466 in their days H3117,

In the days H3117 of old H6924.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:19 -

God H410 will hear H8085 and humiliate H6031 them—

Even the One who [fn]sits H3427 enthroned H3427 from ancient H6924 times H6924— Selah H5542

With whom H834 there H369 [fn]is H369 no H369 change H2487,

And who do not fear H3372 God H430.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:33 -

To Him who rides H7392 upon the [fn]highest H8064 heavens H8064, which are from ancient H6924 times H6924;

Behold H2005, He [fn]speaks H5414 with His voice H6963, a mighty H5797 voice H6963.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2 -

Remember H2142 Your congregation H5712, which You purchased H7069 of old H6924,

Which You have redeemed H1350 to be the tribe H7626 of Your inheritance H5159;

And this H2088 Mount H2022 Zion H6726, where You have dwelt H7931.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 -

Yet God H430 is my King H4428 from long H6924 ago H6924,

Who performs H6466 acts H3444 of H3444 salvation H3444 in the midst H7130 of the earth H776.


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