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# קֵדֶם

Biblical Hebrew

**eastward** — used 26 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

eastward [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b5_5d3_5b6_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵ֫דֶם: adv. eastward to, toward the East [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b5_5d3_5b6_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** c. ה loc. i. קִ֫דְמָה adv. eastward to, toward the East;—Gn 25:6 (J), Lv 1:16; 16:14; Nu 34:3, 11, 15; Jos 19:12, 13 (all P), 1 K 7:39 = 2 Ch 4:10; 1 K 17:3; 2 K 13:17; Ez 8:16(×2); + N, S, W, Gn 13:14; 28:14 (both J), Nu 2:3; 3:28; 10:5 (N, W, in 𝔊), 34:10 (all P); also as n. after פְּאַח = E. side, Ex 27:13; 38:13 (both P), + W Ez 45:7 (del. Co; read קֶדֶם Berthol Toy Krae), + N, S, W, Nu 35:5 Jos 18:20 so גְּבוּל ק׳ 15:5 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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 (19); of (6); \[were\] (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.13/#tree)

וְלִפְאַ֛ת קֵ֥דְמָה מִזְרָ֖חָה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אַמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and for.\[the\] side of eastward eastward fifty cubit\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.

[Numbers 10:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.5/#tree)

וּתְקַעְתֶּ֖ם תְּרוּעָ֑ה וְנָֽסְעוּ֙ הַֽמַּחֲנ֔וֹת הַחֹנִ֖ים קֵֽדְמָה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.give.a.blast an.alarm and they.will.set.out the camps \[which\] encamp eastward

*JPS 1917:* And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b5_5d3_5b6_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b5_5d3_5b6_5dd/): 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).