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Lexicon :: Strong's H6924 - qeḏem

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קֶדֶם
Transliteration
qeḏem
Pronunciation
keh'-dem
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Part of Speech
adverb, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 2 / 2 (Psa 77:5–Zec 14:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5 -

I have considered the days of old H6924,

The years of long ago.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:11 -

I shall remember the deeds of [fn]the LORD;

I will certainly remember Your wonders of old H6924.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:2 -

I will open my mouth in a parable;

I will tell riddles of old H6924,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:152 -

From long H6924 ago H6924 I have known from Your testimonies

That You have founded them forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:5 -

You have encircled me behind and in front H6924,

And placed Your hand upon me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:5 -

I remember the days of old H6924;

I meditate on all Your accomplishments;

I reflect on the work of Your hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 -

“The LORD [fn]created me at the beginning of His way,

Before H6924 His works [fn]of old.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:23 -

“From eternity I was [fn]established,

From the beginning, from the earliest H6924 times H6924 of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 -

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east H6924,

And they are soothsayers like the Philistines.

They also [fn]strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 -

The Arameans from the east H6924 and the Philistines from the west;

And they devour Israel with [fn]gaping jaws.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away,

And His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 -

They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;

Together they will plunder the [fn]people of the east H6924;

[fn]They will possess Edom and Moab,

And the sons of Ammon will be [fn]subject to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 -

The officials of [fn]Zoan are mere fools;

The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become [fn]stupid.

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient H6924 kings”?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:7 -

Is this your jubilant city,

Whose origin is from antiquity H6924,

Whose feet used to bring her to [fn]colonize distant places?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 -

“Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it,

From ancient H6924 times H6924 I planned it.

Now I have brought it about

That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:21 -

“Declare and present your case;

Indeed, let them consult together.

Who has announced this long H6924 ago H6924?

Who has long since declared it?

Is it not I, the LORD?

And there is no other God besides Me,

A righteous God and a Savior;

There is none except Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 -

Declaring the end from the beginning,

And from ancient H6924 times H6924 things which have not been done,

Saying, ‘My plan will be established,

And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 -

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD;

Awake as in the days of old H6924, the generations of long ago.

Was it not You who cut [fn]Rahab in pieces,

Who pierced the dragon?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:20 -

[fn]Their children also will be as before H6924,

And [fn]their congregation will be established before Me;

And I will punish all [fn]their oppressors.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:26 - “I shall hand them over to those who are seeking their lives, that is, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to his [fn]officers. Afterward, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old H6924,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28 -

Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. This is what the LORD says:

“Arise, go up to Kedar

And devastate the [fn]people of the east H6924.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:7 -

In the days of her affliction and homelessness

Jerusalem remembers all her treasures

That were hers since the days of old H6924,

When her people fell into the hand of the adversary

And no one helped her.

The adversaries saw her,

They laughed at her [fn]ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17 -

The LORD has done what He determined;

He has accomplished His word

Which He commanded from days of old H6924.

He has torn down without sparing,

And He has helped the enemy to rejoice over you;

He has exalted the [fn]might of your adversaries.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 -

Restore us to You, LORD, so that we may be restored;

Renew our days as of old H6924,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 -

Then He brought me into the inner courtyard of the LORD’S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD while their faces were toward the east H6924; and they were [fn]prostrating themselves eastward H6924 toward the sun.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east H6924 of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the [fn]people of the east H6924 as a possession, and they will set up their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - and I will give it as a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the [fn]people of the east H6924, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 -

“And the prince shall have land on either side of the holy [fn]allotment and the [fn]property of the city, adjacent to the holy [fn]allotment and the [fn]property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east H6924 side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 -

Then Jonah left the city and sat down east H6924 of [fn]it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade, until he could see what would happen in the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 -

[fn]But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

Too little to be among the clans of Judah,

From you One will come forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.

His times of coming forth are from long H6924 ago H6924,

From the days of eternity.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:20 -

You will give [fn]truth to Jacob

And favor to Abraham,

Which You swore to our forefathers

From the days of old H6924.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:12 -

Are You not from time H6924 everlasting H6924,

LORD, my God, my Holy One?

We will not die.

You, LORD, have appointed them to deliver judgment;

And You, O Rock, have destined them to punish.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east H6924; and the Mount of Olives will be split [fn]in its middle from east to west forming a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south.

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