Qedem קֶ֫דֶם

Qedem (Hebrew קֶ֫דֶם, Strong's H6924) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “front: old”. It occurs 87 times in 83 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H6924H: front: old

H6924B: east

H6924G: front: east

H6924A: East

H6924I: front: forward

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Qedem, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 2:8
  And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
• 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 way of the tree of life.So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
• Genesis 10:30
  And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
• 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.And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
• Genesis 12:8
  And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
• 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.So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
• 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 northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
• 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, eastward, unto the east country.But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
• 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 south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
• Genesis 29:1
  Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

Exodus

• Exodus 27:13
  And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
• Exodus 38:13
  And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.And the east side, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.

Leviticus

• 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:And he is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.
• 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 shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.And he is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the mercy seat.

Numbers

• 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 Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard:
• 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 Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.
• Numbers 10:5
  When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.
• 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, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
• 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 the salt sea eastward:Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
• Numbers 34:10
  And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham:And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
• 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 the sea of Chinnereth eastward:then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
• Numbers 34:15
  The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
• 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 side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 33:15
  And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,
• 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, Destroy them.The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

Joshua

• Joshua 7:2
  And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth–aven, on the east side of Beth–el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
• 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 uttermost part of Jordan:The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.
• 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, according to their families.On the east side the border was the Jordan. These were the borders around the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
• Joshua 19:12
  And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,From Sarid it turned eastward along the border of Chisloth-tabor and went on to Daberath and up to Japhia.
• Joshua 19:13
  And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah;From there it crossed eastward to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon and curved around toward Neah.

Judges

• 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 against them;Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
• 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 Jezreel.Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
• 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 camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
• 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 children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
• 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.And Gideon went up by way of the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked their army, taking them by surprise.

1 Kings

• 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.Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
• 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 house eastward over against the south.He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
• 1 Kings 17:3
  Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

2 Kings

• 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 deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.“Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”
• 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 shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 4:10
  And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

Nehemiah

• 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.For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there were directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Job

• 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 very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
• Job 23:8
  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
• Job 29:2
  Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

Psalms

• Psalm 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.We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
• Psalm 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.God will hear and humiliate them— the One enthroned for the ages— Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
• Psalm 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.to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
• Psalm 74:2
  Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.
• Psalm 74:12
  For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
• Psalm 77:5
  I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
• Psalm 77:11
  I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
• Psalm 78:2
  I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
• Psalm 119:152
  Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.Long ago I learned from Your testimonies that You have established them forever.
• Psalm 139:5
  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
• Psalm 143:5
  I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 8:22
  The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
• Proverbs 8:23
  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

Isaiah

• 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 Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
• 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, but his hand is stretched out still.Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
• 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 hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
• 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 son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
• Isaiah 23:7
  Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
• 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 shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
• 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 time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
• 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 do all my pleasure:I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
• 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 Rahab, and wounded the dragon?Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Jeremiah

• 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.Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.
• 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 hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
• 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 up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!

Lamentations

• 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 people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.
• 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 hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
• Lamentations 5:21
  Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

Ezekiel

• 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 altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
• 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.And the glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stood over the mountain east of the city.
• 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 dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
• 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.I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
• 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 the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.Now the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.

Jonah

• 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 might see what would become of the city.Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

Micah

• Micah 5:2
  But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel— One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
• 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.You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Habakkuk

• 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 God, thou hast established them for correction.Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

Zechariah

• 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 in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).