# קֶדֶם (qedem)

Israeli respelling: qe-dem. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6924. 83 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, [idiom] ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926 (קִדְמָה).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/qedem-h6924

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/8) — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- [Genesis 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/24) — 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…
- [Genesis 10:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/30) — And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
- [Genesis 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/8) — 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…
- [Genesis 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/11) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 northwa…
- [Genesis 25:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, east…
- [Genesis 28:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sou…
- [Genesis 29:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/1) — Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
- [Exodus 27:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/27/13) — And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- [Exodus 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/13) — And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
- [Leviticus 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/1/16) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/14) — 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 shal…
- [Numbers 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/3) — 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 Nahsho…
- [Numbers 3:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/38) — But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and A…
- [Numbers 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/5) — When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
- [Numbers 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, cur…
- [Numbers 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Numbers 34:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/10) — And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
- [Numbers 34:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Numbers 34:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/15) — The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
- [Numbers 35:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/5) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/15) — And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
- [Deuteronomy 33:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Joshua 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/2) — 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 t…
- [Joshua 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/5) — 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…
- [Joshua 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/20) — 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,…
- [Joshua 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/19/12) — And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhi…
- [Joshua 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/19/13) — And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
- [Judges 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, even they came up again…
- [Judges 6:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/33) — 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…
- [Judges 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/7/12) — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their c…
- [Judges 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ch…
- [Judges 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/11) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/30) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h…
- [1 Kings 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/3) — Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
- [2 Kings 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/13/17) — 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 deliver…
- [2 Kings 19:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/25) — 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 shoul…
- [2 Chronicles 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/10) — And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
- [Nehemiah 12:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/46) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ve…
- [Job 23:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/8) — Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
- [Job 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/2) — Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
- [Psalms 44:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Psalms 55:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/19) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/33) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/2) — Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, where…
- [Psalms 74:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/12) — For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- [Psalms 77:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/77/5) — I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
- [Psalms 77:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/77/11) — I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
- [Psalms 78:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/2) — I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
- [Psalms 119:152](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/152) — Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
- [Psalms 139:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/5) — Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
- [Psalms 143:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/143/5) — I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
- [Proverbs 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/22) — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
- [Proverbs 8:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/23) — I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
- [Isaiah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/6) — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philist…
- [Isaiah 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/12) — The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, bu…
- [Isaiah 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/14) — 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…
- [Isaiah 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 s…
- [Isaiah 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/7) — Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
- [Isaiah 37:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/26) — 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 sho…
- [Isaiah 45:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 tim…
- [Isaiah 46:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 d…
- [Isaiah 51:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 R…
- [Jeremiah 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/20) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/26) — 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 han…
- [Jeremiah 49:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/28) — Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go…
- [Lamentations 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/7) — 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 pe…
- [Lamentations 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/17) — 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…
- [Lamentations 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/21) — Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- [Ezekiel 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/16) — 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 a…
- [Ezekiel 11:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/23) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/4) — 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 dwe…
- [Ezekiel 25:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/10) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/7) — 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 t…
- [Jonah 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/5) — 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 mi…
- [Micah 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/2) — 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…
- [Micah 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Zechariah 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/4) — 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…