{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6924",
  "lemma": "קֶדֶם",
  "transliteration": "qedem",
  "definition": "the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)",
  "kjv": "aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, [idiom]…",
  "occurrences": 87,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H6923",
      "lemma": "קָדַם",
      "transliteration": "qâdam",
      "meaning": "to project",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6923"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[קֵ֫דֶם], קֵ֫דְמָה adv. eastward, to, toward the E.",
    "קֶ֫דֶם n.[m.]",
    "קֶ֫דֶם n.[m.] front, east, aforetime",
    "1. loc.",
    "a. front",
    "b. East; elsewh. מִקּ׳ = eastward",
    "2. temp., ancient time, aforetime:",
    "a. הַרְרֵי ק׳ Dt 33:15 ancient mts.",
    "b. בִּימֵי ק׳ ψ 44:2 in ancient days",
    "c. מִקּ׳ from of old",
    "d. ק׳ alone, as adv. anciently, of old",
    "e. beginning"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:8",
      "text": "The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 3:24",
      "text": "So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 10:30",
      "text": "Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:2",
      "text": "As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 12:8",
      "text": "He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:11",
      "text": "So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:14",
      "text": "The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 25:6",
      "text": "but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 28:14",
      "text": "Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:1",
      "text": "Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=1"
    }
  ],
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