קֶדֶם H6924

Home gloss

east (spatial); of old (temporal)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

eastward / east

Note

Front, so the east and what is before. Split by construction: spatial with places (3:24; 11:2; 12:8), temporal "of old" (Deut 33:15; Ps 74:12; Mic 5:1). The crux at 2:8 is in its note

Rulings

3, 20

Declared to share English with

H6926 — one root: east (קֶדֶם / קִדְמָה)

Occurrences (8)

Genesis 2

2:8 And Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and he put there the human whom he had shaped.

Genesis 3

3:24 And he drove out the man; and he made tent on the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the blaze of the sword that turns itself about, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 10

10:30 And their seat was from Mesha, as you come toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Genesis 11

11:2 And it was, as they broke camp from the east, and they found a plain in the land of Shinar and dwelt there.

Genesis 12

12:8 And he moved on from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and stretched out his tent, Bethel from the sea and Ai from the east; and he built there an altar to , and called on the name of .
12:8 And he moved on from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and stretched out his tent, Bethel from the sea and Ai from the east; and he built there an altar to , and called on the name of .

Genesis 13

13:11 And Lot chose for himself all the circle of the Jordan, and Lot broke camp from the east; and they separated, a man from his brother.
13:14 And said to Abram, after Lot separated from with him, "Lift, please, your eyes and see from the place where you are: northward and Negevward and eastward and seaward.