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קֶדֶם H6924
H6924 is the Hebrew word קֶדֶם, transliterated qedem and said keh'-dem. The King James Version most often renders it east.
What it means
the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward).
Where it comes from
or קֵדְמָה; from H6923 (קָדַם).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 68 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, [idiom] ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926 (קִדְמָה).
Verses using קֶדֶם
The first 40 of 73 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 2:8 · KJV
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 3:24 · KJV
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 11:2 · KJV
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Genesis 12:8 · KJV
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel 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 13:11 · KJV
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 13:14 · KJV
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, and westward:
Genesis 25:6 · KJV
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 country.
Genesis 28:14 · KJV
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 in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Exodus 27:13 · KJV
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus 38:13 · KJV
And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Leviticus 1:16 · KJV
And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
Leviticus 16:14 · KJV
And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
Numbers 2:3 · KJV
And on the east side 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 · KJV
But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, 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 · KJV
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
Numbers 23:7 · KJV
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 come, defy Israel.
Numbers 34:10 · KJV
And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
Numbers 34:11 · KJV
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:
Numbers 34:15 · KJV
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
Numbers 35:5 · KJV
And ye shall measure from without 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 the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Deuteronomy 33:15 · KJV
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
Deuteronomy 33:27 · KJV
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.
Joshua 7:2 · KJV
And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
Joshua 15:5 · KJV
And the east 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 · KJV
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
Joshua 19:12 · KJV
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
Joshua 19:13 · KJV
And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
Judges 6:3 · KJV
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Judges 6:33 · KJV
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
Judges 7:12 · KJV
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east 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 · KJV
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: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
Judges 8:11 · KJV
And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
1 Kings 4:30 · KJV
And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 7:39 · KJV
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 over against the south.
1 Kings 17:3 · KJV
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
2 Kings 13:17 · KJV
And he said, Open the window eastward. 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 · KJV
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times 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 · KJV
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
Nehemiah 12:46 · KJV
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
Job 23:8 · KJV
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Common questions
What does Strong's H6924 mean?
H6924 is the Hebrew word קֶדֶם (qedem), meaning the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward).
How is H6924 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it east (26 times), old (12 times), eastward (9 times), ancient (6 times), east side (5 times), among others.
How many times does H6924 appear in the Bible?
קֶדֶם (qedem) is tagged in 73 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H6924 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: or קֵדְמָה; from H6923 (קָדַם).
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