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קֶ֫דֶם noun [masculine] front, east, aforetime; — absolute׳ ק Deut 33:27 +, קֶ֑קֶם Judg 8:10 +; construct קֶדֶם Prov 8:22 once plural construct קַדְמֵי Prov 8:23 —
1. location
a.
front, ׳
מִקּ
Isa 9:11
from the front (i.e. East), in front (opposed to מֵאָחוֺר
), ׳
אָחוֺר וָק
Ps 139:5
behind and before; אֶהֳלֹךְ
׳
ק
Job 23:8
I go forward (opposed to אָחוֺר)
b.
East:
׳
הַרהַֿקּ
Gen 10:30
(
J
) mount of the East; ׳
בְּנֵיקֿ = dwellers in the east, tribes east or northeast of Canaan Gen 29:1 (
E
), Judg 6:3
; Judg 6:33
; Judg 7:12
; Judg 8:10
; 1Kgs
5:10;
Isa 11:14; Jer 49:28; Ezek 25:4; Ezek 25:10; Job 1:3
׳
הַרְרֵי ק
Num 23:7,
see Di Sachau: Reise (1883), 159 ff.165 ff. Dr in Hast.PETHOS; ׳
אֶרֶץ ק
Gen 25:6 (
J
); מָֽלְאוּ מִקֶּדֶם
Isa 2:6
they are full from the east (insert probablyקֶסֶם, מִקְסָם
, or < קֹסְמִים before ׳
מִקּ, compare Lo
De
Du
CheHpt
Di-Kit); elsewhere ׳
מִקּ =eastward: (I) in the east
Gen 2:8 (2) on
the eastern (side) Gen
12:8 (
J
) Zech
14:4
לְ
׳
מִקּ
on the east of
Gen 3:24 (
J
), Gen
12:8 (
J
), Num
34:1l (
P
), Josh 7:2
(
J
E
), Judg
8:11; Ezek 11:23 = Jonah 4:5 (3) eastward, with verb of motion
Gen 11:2;
Gen 13:11
(both
J
).
2. temporal, ancient time, aforetime:
a.
׳
הַרְרֵי ק
Deut 33:15
ancient mountains, compare ׳
אֱלֹהֵי ק Deut 33:27, ׳
מַלְכֵיקֿ
Isa 19:11,
׳
בִּשְׁמֵי שְׁמֵיקֿ
Ps 68:34.
b.
׳
כִּימֵי ק
Ps 44:2
in ancient days; compare ׳
מִימֵי ק
from of old
Isa 23:7; Mic 7:20; Lam 1:7; Lam 2:17; Isa 37:26 =
׳
לְמִימֵי ק) 2Kgs 19:25 (see
מִן
9.b. (2)); ׳
כִּימֵי ק
Isa 51:9; Jer 46:26
׳
יַרְחֵי ק
Job 29:2
months of old.
c.
׳
מִקּ from of old Mic 5:1; Isa 45:21; Isa 46:10; Hab 1:12; Neh 12:46; Ps 77:12
׳
מִנִּיק 7;
Ps 8:2
springing out of, derived from, ancient times (compare Dr
); ׳
יָמִים מִקּ
Ps 77:6; Ps 143:5
days from of old.
d.
׳
ק alone, as adverb anciently, of old
Ps 74:2; Ps 119:152
׳
כְּק
Jer 30:20;
Lam 5:21
׳
ישֵׁב ק
Ps 55:20
he that sitteth (enthroned from) of old.
e. beginning, מִקַּדְמֵיאָֿ֑רֶץ
Prov 8:23
from the beginnings of the earth; מִפְעָלָיו
׳
ק
Prov 8:22 the
beginning of his works (|| רֵאשִׁית).