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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

H6924

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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - And God planted a garden eastward in Edem, and placed there the man whom he had formed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - And he cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight, and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:30 - And their dwelling was from Masse, till one comes to Saphera, a mountain of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bæthel, and there he pitched his tent in Bæthel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6 - But to the sons of his concubines Abraam gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the east into the country of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - And Jacob [fn]started and went to the land of the east to Laban, the son of Bathuel the Syrian, and the brother of Rebecca, mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:13 - And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the south, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:13 - (LXX 37:11) And on the east side curtains of fifty cubits of fifteen cubits behind,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:16 - And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:14 - And he shall take of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger on the mercy-seat eastward: before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - And they that encamp first toward the east shall be the order of the camp of Juda with their host, and the prince of the sons of Juda, Naasson the son of Aminadab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them, shall die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5 - And ye shall sound an alarm, and the camps pitched eastward shall begin to move.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall [fn]extend on the side of the salt sea eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:10 - And ye shall measure to yourselves the eastern border from Arsenain to Sepphamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11 - And the border shall go down from Sepphamar to Bela eastward to the fountains, and the border shall go down from Bela behind the sea Chenereth eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - Two tribes and half a tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan by Jericho from the south eastwards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:15 - from the top of the ancient mountains, and from the top of the everlasting hills,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 - And the rule of God shall protect thee, and that under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before thy face, saying, Perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is by Bæthel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - And their boundaries eastward are all the salt sea as far as Jordan; and their borders from the north, and from the border of the sea, and from part of Jordan—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - And Jordan shall be their boundary on the east: this is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, these are their borders round about according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:12 - And the border returned from Sedduc in a contrary direction eastward from Bæthsamys, to the borders of Chaselothaith, and shall pass on to Dabiroth, and shall proceed upward to Phangai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:13 - And thence it shall come round in the opposite direction eastward to Gebere to the city of Catasem, and shall go on to Remmonaa Matharaoza.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Madiam and Amalec went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 - And all Madiam, and Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered themselves together, and encamped in the valley of Jezrael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And Madiam and Amalec and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - And Zebee and Salmana were in Carcar, and their host was with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the host of the aliens; and they that fell were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - And Gedeon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents, eastward of Nabai and Jegebal; and he smote the host, and the host was secure.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - (LXX 5:10) And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - (LXX 7:25) And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed [fn]on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3 - Depart hence eastward, and hide thee [fn]by the brook of Chorrath, that is before Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:17 - And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. And Elisaie said, Shoot. And he shot. And Elisaie said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance [fn]from Syria; and thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphec until thou have consumed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the [fn]destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:10 - And he set the sea at the corner of the house on the right, as it were fronting the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:46 - For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers, and they sang hymns and praise to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was most noble of the men of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:8 - For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know concerning the latter end?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:2 - Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:1 - (LXX 43:1) For the end, a Psalm for [fn]instruction, for the sons of Core. (43:2) O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:19 - (LXX 54:20) God shall hear, and bring them low, even he that has existed from eternity. Pause. [fn]For they suffer no reverse, and therefore they have not feared God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:33 - (LXX 67:34) Sing to God that [fn]rides on the heaven of heaven, eastward: lo, he will utter a mighty sound with his voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2 - (LXX 73:2) Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 - (LXX 73:12) But God is our King [fn]of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

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