Biblical Persons & Places
Strong's Definition
the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
Derivation: or קֵדְמָה; from H6923 (קָדַם);
KJV Usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, [idiom] ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926 (קִדְמָה).
TWOT Reference: 1988a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קֶ֫דֶם (qe.dem) — East.
This name means east, antiquity, front
קֵ֫דֶם (qe.dem) — east. adv eastward, to or toward the East Another spelling of qe.dem (קֶ֫דֶם ": east" H6924)
קֶ֫דֶם (qe.dem) — front: east. : east 1) east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime 1a) front, from the front or east, in front, mount of the East 1b) ancient time, aforetime, ancient, from of old, earliest time 1c) anciently, of old (adverb) 1d) beginning 1e) east
קֶ֫דֶם (qe.dem) — front: old. : old/ancient 1) east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime 1a) front, from the front or east, in front, mount of the East 1b) ancient time, aforetime, ancient, from of old, earliest time 1c) anciently, of old (adverb) 1d) beginning 1e) east
קֶ֫דֶם (qe.dem) — front: forward. : forward 1) east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime 1a) front, from the front or east, in front, mount of the East 1b) ancient time, aforetime, ancient, from of old, earliest time 1c) anciently, of old (adverb) 1d) beginning 1e) east
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · קדם
Spatial Referents | ≠ אָחֹור
in front = a referent pointing in the direction that one is facing
Spatial Referents | ≠ אָחֹור · הַיָּם
east, eastern, easterly, eastward literally: front; hence: = a referent pointing to the place where the sun rises
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Temporal Referents | ≈ אָז · רָחֹוק · עֹולָם
ancient time, long ago literally: front; hence: = a reference to a period of time referenced in the distant past
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Begin | ≈ רֵאשִׁית
beginning literally: long ago; hence: = a point in time at which an event starts happening
1 PSA 55:20 LXX "πρὸ τῶν αἰωνων" RSV NRSV REB ESV "from of old" GNT "from eternity" CEV "always" | NIV "forever" | NJPS "from the first" NJB "from the beginning"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
קֶ֫דֶם n.[m.] front, east, aforetime loc. front
East; elsewh. מִקּ׳ = eastward
temp., ancient time, aforetime: הַרְרֵי ק׳ Dt 33:15 ancient mts.
בִּימֵי ק׳ ψ 44:2 in ancient days
מִקּ׳ from of old
ק׳ alone, as adv. anciently, of old
beginning
base
[קֵ֫דֶם], קֵ֫דְמָה adv. eastward, to, toward the E. base