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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 2 / 2 (Psa 77:5–Zec 14:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5 - I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:11 - I will remember the works of the LORD;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:2 - I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:152

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:152 - Concerning Your testimonies,
I have known of old that You have founded them forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:5 - You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:5 - I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all Your works;
I muse on the work of Your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:22 - “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:23 - I have been established from everlasting,
From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with eastern ways;
They are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - The Syrians before and the Philistines behind;
And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth.

For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the people of the East;
They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 - Surely the princes of Zoan are fools;
Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel.
How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise,
The son of ancient kings?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:7 - Is this your joyous city,
Whose antiquity is from ancient days,
Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - “Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:21 - Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the LORD?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 - Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the LORD!
Awake as in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart,
And wounded the serpent?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:20 - Their children also shall be as before,
And their congregation shall be established before Me;
And I will punish all who oppress them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:26 - “And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. Afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28 - Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike. Thus says the LORD:

“Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate the men of the East!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:7 - In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her downfall.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17 - The LORD has done what He purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you;
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 - Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored;
Renew our days as of old,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - So He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the east side of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - “indeed, therefore, I will deliver you as a possession to the men of the East, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - “To the men of the East I will give it as a possession, together with the Ammonites, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - “The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property; and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 - So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:2 - “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be Ruler in Israel,
Whose goings forth are from of old,
From everlasting.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:20 - You will give truth to Jacob
And mercy to Abraham,
Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:12 - Are You not from everlasting,
O LORD my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment;
O Rock, You have marked them for correction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

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