# H6924 קֶדֶם

קֶדֶם (qedem), Strong’s H6924: the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward) KJV: aforetime, ancient…

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*qedem* — 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]…

Derived from [קָדַם qâdam](https://besorah.bible/word/H6923) (to project)

Occurs 87 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=8) — The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- [Genesis 3:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=24) — So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned…
- [Genesis 10:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=30) — Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
- [Genesis 11:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=2) — As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
- [Genesis 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=8) — 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…
- [Genesis 13:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=11) — So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.
- [Genesis 13:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=14) — The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you…
- [Genesis 25:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=6) — but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son…
- [Genesis 28:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=14) — 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…
- [Genesis 29:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=1) — Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.