קִדְמָה
qidmâh · H6926 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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east, eastern, easterly, eastward
Literally: front; hence: a reference to the direction where the sun rises
ExamplesGenesis 2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 4:16 Then Cain left the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
1 Samuel 13:5 Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יָםsea 1
- עֵדֶןdelightful things 1
- אַשּׁוּרAsshur 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִכְמָסMichmash 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- This word means eastward, directly illustrated by the Tigris flowing east of Assyria (Genesis 2:14), Cain settling east of Eden (Genesis 4:16), and the Philistines camping east of Beth-aven (1 Samuel 13:5).
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6926. qidmah [קִדְמָה] noun feminine front, East; — only construct קִדְמַת as…
[קִדְמָה] noun feminine front, East; — only construct קִדְמַת as preposition:
1 in front of, over against (compare NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 532), Gen 2:14 (i.e. from standpoint of writer; really, on geographic grounds, = west of; yet see Died. 6), Gen 4:16 (both J),
2 on the east of, Eze 39:11; 1Sa 13:5 may be either.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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