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# קָדִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6921

**East** — used 69 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

East [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6921/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָדִים: n.m. East, east wind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6921/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ho 13:15 East, east wind;—abs. ק׳ Gn 41:6 +; c. ה loc. קָדִ֫ימָה Ez 11:1 +, קָדִ֫מָה 48:4 +;— (apart from Ez) East, especially רוּחַ (הַ)קּ׳ wind of the East, east wind, often as violent and scorching, from desert on SE., = Arabic sirocco (شرقية eastern), cf. Dr Am 4:9: Ex 10:13(×2) (JE), 14:21 (J), Je 18:17 (sim.), Jon 4:8 ψ 48:8; also ק׳ (רוּחַ om.) = east wind Gn 41:6, 23, 27 (E), Ho 12:2; 13:15; Is 27:8; Jb 15:2; 27:21; 38:24 ψ 78:26.—קָדִימָה Hb 1:9 is dub., usually eastward, i.e. forward, but text prob. corrupt, cf. We Now Da, GASm proposes מַקְדִּים (v. also \[מְגַמָּה\] p. 169 supr.). in Ez (52 times): East רוּחַ הַקּ׳ east wind 17:10; 19:12; 27:26; east side 42:16 (+ N, S, W); שַׁעַר הַקּ׳ 40:44 (+ N, S); פְּאַת ק׳ 47:18, + W 48:6, 7, 8, cf. v 1 (פ׳ ק׳ הַיָּם; but read מִפּ׳ ק׳ וְעַד פ׳ יָמָּה 𝔊 Co Toy al.), + N, S, W, v 16; דֶּרֶךְ הַקּ׳ i.e. toward the E. 40:10 + 7 times, מִדּ׳ הַקּ׳ 43:2; לַקּ׳ 40:23 eastward (+ N) 41:14; מֵהַקּ׳ 42:9 on the East. קָדִ֫ימָה = East: דֶּרֶךְ הַקּ׳ 40:6; גְּבוּל קָדִימָה 45:7; 48:21 (+ W); פְּאַת קָדִימָה 47:18, + W 48:3 + 8 times, + N, S, W, v 32. as adv. קָדִ֫ימָה eastward 11:1; 44:1; 47:1; + W 45:7 (del. Berthol Krae), 48:18, + N, S, W, v 10, 17; also (הַ)קָּדִים eastward 40:19; 43:17; 46:1, 12; 47:1, 3, + N v 2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 50 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: eastward (20); the east (15); east (10).

## In the verses

[Psalms 48:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.8/#tree)

בְּר֥וּחַ קָדִ֑ים תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר אֳנִיּ֥וֹת תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃

*Word for word:* with a.wind of.\[the\].east you.shatter (the).ships of.Tarshish

*JPS 1917:* With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

[Job 15:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.2/#tree)

הֶֽחָכָ֗ם יַעֲנֶ֥ה דַֽעַת־ר֑וּחַ וִֽימַלֵּ֖א קָדִ֣ים בִּטְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a wise.\[person\]? does.he.answer knowledge of.wind and does.he.fill? east.wind belly his

*JPS 1917:* Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6921.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6921/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).