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Strong's H6924 קֶדֶם (qedem)

Qedem means “before” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6924
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 83
Books 22

Strong's H6924 Quick Answer

Strong's H6924 קֶדֶם קֵדמָה (qedem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qedem (keh'-dem) (or qedmah {kayd'-maw}) adv. 1. the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity) 2. often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward) It has 83 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include east, place, parts, part, and antiquity. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
qedem (keh'-dem) (or qedmah {kayd'-maw}) adv. 1. the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity) 2. often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
Usage
83 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
east, place, parts, part, and antiquity

Meaning and Definition

qedem (keh'-dem) (or qedmah {kayd'-maw}) adv. 1. the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity) 2. often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward) [from H6923] KJV: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Root(s): H6923 Compare: H6926

Original Word
קֶדֶם קֵדמָה
Transliteration
qedem
Derivation
Root: קדם First root strongs: 6923
Morphology
adverb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6924. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6924 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qedem, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

east Genesis 3:24 37× antiquity Isaiah 23:7 part Joshua 15:5 parts Numbers 10:5 place Leviticus 1:16 time Isaiah 45:21

How Strong's H6924 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 83 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6924 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6924 in the Old Testament

83 indexed usages in Old Testament.

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 10:30 KJV

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

Usage Excerpts

First 83 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6924.

Genesis 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 3:24 Old Testament, 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 10:30 Old Testament, KJV
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Genesis 11:2 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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.
Genesis 29:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
Exodus 27:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus 38:13 Old Testament, KJV
And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Leviticus 1:16 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
Numbers 23:7 Old Testament, 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 34:3 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Numbers 34:10 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
Numbers 34:11 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
Deuteronomy 33:27 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
Joshua 15:5 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
Judges 6:3 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
2 Kings 13:17 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
Nehemiah 12:46 Old Testament, 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 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Job 23:8 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job 29:2 Old Testament, KJV
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Psalms 44:1 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 55:19 Old Testament, KJV
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms 68:33 Old Testament, KJV
To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Psalms 74:2 Old Testament, KJV
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psalms 74:12 Old Testament, KJV
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 77:5 Old Testament, KJV
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Psalms 77:11 Old Testament, KJV
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms 78:2 Old Testament, KJV
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalms 119:152 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Psalms 139:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Psalms 143:5 Old Testament, KJV
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Proverbs 8:22 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Proverbs 8:23 Old Testament, KJV
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Isaiah 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Isaiah 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah 19:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 son of ancient kings?
Isaiah 23:7 Old Testament, KJV
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah 37:26 Old Testament, 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 defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Isaiah 45:21 Old Testament, KJV
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 LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
Isaiah 46:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 the dragon?
Jeremiah 30:20 Old Testament, KJV
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
Jeremiah 46:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:28 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
Lamentations 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations 5:21 Old Testament, KJV
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Ezekiel 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel 11:23 Old Testament, KJV
And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
Ezekiel 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
Ezekiel 25:10 Old Testament, KJV
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
Ezekiel 45:7 Old Testament, KJV
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
Jonah 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
Micah 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
But thou, Bethlehem 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; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 7:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 established them for correction.
Zechariah 14:4 Old Testament, KJV
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6924, grouped by book.

Genesis 10 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 9 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 11 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6924 FAQ

What does qedem (קֶדֶם) mean?

Qedem (Strong's H6924) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "before". qedem (keh'-dem) (or qedmah {kayd'-maw}) adv. 1. the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity) 2. often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)

How many times is qedem (קֶדֶם) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 83 linked usages for Strong's H6924 across 22 books.

Where can I study qedem (קֶדֶם) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6924 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate qedem (קֶדֶם)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as east, place, parts, part, antiquity, and time. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.