Strong's Hebrew · H6926

H6926 qidmâh

קִדְמָה

kid-maw'

east

qidmâh appears 4 times in Scripture, in Genesis, 1 Samuel and Ezekiel. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

the forward part (or relatively) East (often adverbially, on the east or in front)

In the King James Version

east(-ward).

Derivation

feminine of H6924 (קֶדֶם);

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Genesis 4:16

“So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”

1 Samuel 13:5

“Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.”

Ezekiel 39:11

“And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.”

Genesis 2:14

“The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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