# H6927 קַדְמָה

קַדְמָה (qadmâh), Strong’s H6927: priority (in time); also used adverbially (before) KJV: afore, antiquity, former (old) estate.. Occurs 6 times.

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*qadmâh* — priority (in time); also used adverbially (before)

KJV: afore, antiquity, former (old) estate.

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

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [קַדְמָה] n.f. antiquity, former state;—
- 1 antiquity, beginning
- 2 former state
- 3 cstr. sg. = conj. before (temp.)

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/23?v=7) — Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
- [Ezekiel 16:55](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=55) — Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to…
- [Ezekiel 36:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/36?v=11) — I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were…
- [Psalms 129:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/129?v=6) — Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,