Qedem — H6924

Definition

masculine noun

the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)

1. n m
2. 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
3. adv
4. eastward, to or toward the East

Usually translated as

east, old, eastward, ancient, before, eternal, ever, everlasting, forward, past, aforetime

Origin

or qêdᵉmâh; from H6923

• Derived from Qâdam (H6923)

Greek equivalents

• aiṓn (G165)
• anatolḗ (G395)
• archaîos (G744)
• archḗ (G746)
• émprosthen (G1715)
• hḗlios (G2246)

Occurrences

Qedem occurs 87 times in 83 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (10), Exodus (2), Leviticus (2), Numbers (9), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (5), Judges (5), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1), Job (3), Psalms (11), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (9), Jeremiah (3), Lamentations (3), Ezekiel (5), Jonah (1), Micah (2), Habakkuk (1), Zechariah (1)

• Genesis 2:8 — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward (מִקֶּ֑דֶם) in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
• Genesis 3:24 — So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east (מִקֶּ֨דֶם) of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
• Genesis 10:30 — And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east (הַקֶּֽדֶם).
• Genesis 11:2 — And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east (מִקֶּ֑דֶם), that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
• Genesis 12:8 — And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east (מִקֶּ֛דֶם) of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
• Genesis 12:8 — And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east (מִקֶּ֔דֶם): and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
• Genesis 13:11 — Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east (מִקֶּ֑דֶם): and they separated themselves the one from the other.
• Genesis 13:14 — And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward (וָקֵ֥דְמָה), and westward:
• Genesis 25:6 — But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward (קֵ֖דְמָה), unto the east country.
• Genesis 25:6 — But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east (קֶֽדֶם) country.
• 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 (וָקֵ֖דְמָה), and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Genesis 29:1 — Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east (קֶֽדֶם).
• Exodus 27:13 — And the breadth of the court on the east (קֵ֥דְמָה) side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
• Exodus 38:13 — And for the east (קֵ֥דְמָה) side eastward fifty cubits.
• Leviticus 1:16 — And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part (קֵ֔דְמָה), by the place of the ashes:
• Leviticus 16:14 — And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward (קֵ֑דְמָה); and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
• Numbers 2:3 — And on the east side (קֵ֣דְמָה) toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
• Numbers 3:38 — But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east (קֵ֣דְמָה), even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• Numbers 10:5 — When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts (קֵֽדְמָה) shall go forward.
• 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 (קֶ֔דֶם), saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
• Numbers 34:3 — Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward (קֵֽדְמָה):
• Numbers 34:10 — And ye shall point out your east (קֵ֑דְמָה) border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
• Numbers 34:11 — And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side (מִקֶּ֣דֶם) of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
• Numbers 34:11 — And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward (קֵֽדְמָה):
• Numbers 34:15 — The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward (קֵ֥דְמָה), toward the sunrising.
• Numbers 35:5 — And ye shall measure from without the city on the east (קֵ֣דְמָה) 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 the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
• Deuteronomy 33:15 — And for the chief things of the ancient (קֶ֑דֶם) mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
• Deuteronomy 33:27 — The eternal (קֶ֔דֶם) 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.
• Joshua 7:2 — And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side (מִקֶּ֣דֶם) of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
• Joshua 15:5 — And the east (קֵ֙דְמָה֙) border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
• Joshua 18:20 — And Jordan was the border of it on the east (קֵ֑דְמָה) side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
• Joshua 19:12 — And turned from Sarid eastward (קֵ֚דְמָה) toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
• Joshua 19:13 — And from thence passeth on along on the east (קֵ֣דְמָה) to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;
• Judges 6:3 — And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east (קֶ֖דֶם), even they came up against them;
• Judges 6:33 — Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east (קֶ֖דֶם) were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
• Judges 7:12 — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east (קֶ֙דֶם֙) lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
• Judges 8:10 — Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east (קֶ֑דֶם): for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
• Judges 8:11 — And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east (מִקֶּ֥דֶם) of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
• 1 Kings 4:30 — And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country (קֶ֑דֶם), and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• 1 Kings 7:39 — And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward (קֵ֖דְמָה) over against the south.
• 1 Kings 17:3 — Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward (קֵ֑דְמָה), and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
• 2 Kings 13:17 — And he said, Open the window eastward (קֵ֖דְמָה). And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
• 2 Kings 19:25 — Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times (קֶ֖דֶם) that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
• 2 Chronicles 4:10 — And he set the sea on the right side of the east end (קֵ֖דְמָה), over against the south.
• Nehemiah 12:46 — For in the days of David and Asaph of old (מִקֶּ֑דֶם) there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
• 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; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east (קֶֽדֶם).
• Job 23:8 — Behold, I go forward (קֶ֣דֶם), but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
• Job 29:2 — Oh that I were as in months past (קֶ֑דֶם), as in the days when God preserved me;
• Psalms 44:1 — We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old (קֶֽדֶם).
• Psalms 55:19 — God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old (קֶ֗דֶם). Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.