קֶדֶם qedem

Hebrew word for “front” · Strong’s H6924 · used 87 times in 83 verses

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Meaning

: old/ancient; 1) east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime;

Senses in the lexicon

• front: old (32)
• east (26)
• front: east (22)
• East (6)
• front: forward (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for qedem in context, with how often each is used:

• east 28
• east -ward 26
• antiquity 22
• ancient time 4
• long ago 1
• front 1
• beginning 1
• beginnings 1
• like long ago 1
• like ancient time 1
• forward 1

Where it is used

Also in 10 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 34 (4), Genesis 13 (2), Deuteronomy 33 (2), Joshua 19 (2), Judges 6 (2), Judges 8 (2), Psalms 74 (2), Psalms 77 (2), Proverbs 8 (2), Ezekiel 25 (2)

Forms

• קדם 33
• קדמה 24
• מקדם 22
• כקדם 2
• וקדמה 2
• וקדם 1
• מקדמי 1
• ומקדם 1
• הקדם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qedem more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָם yam “sea” 13
• מִזְרָח mizrach “east” 8
• פֵּאָה peah “side” 7
• נֶגֶב negev “south” 7
• גְּבוּל gevul “border” 6
• עוֹלָם olam “forever” 7
• צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 5
• אָחוֹר achor “back” 4
• יַרְדֵּן yarden “Jordan” 5
• כָּתֵף kateph “shoulder” 4
• זָכַר zakhar “to remember” 5
• שָׁכַן shakhan “to dwell” 4

Key verses

The verses using qedem that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 28:14 — And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and…
• Numbers 23:7 — And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and…
• Deuteronomy 33:27 — The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Psalms 44:1 — [To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in…
• Isaiah 19:11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the…
• Isaiah 45:21 — Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the…
• Isaiah 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Isaiah 51:9 — Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded…
• Micah 5:2 — But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;…
• Micah 7:20 — Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Habakkuk 1:12 — Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.