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# קִדְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6926

**front** — used 4 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

front [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6926/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִדְמָה: n.f. front, East [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6926/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. front, East;—only cstr. קִדְמַת as prep.: in front of, over against (cf. NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 532), Gn 2:14 (i.e. from standpoint of writer; really, on geogr. grounds, = W. of; yet v. Died. 6), 4:16 (both J). on the E. of, Ez 39:11; 1 S 13:5 may be either.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the east (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב בְּאֶֽרֶץ־נ֖וֹד קִדְמַת־עֵֽדֶן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Cain from before Yahweh and he.dwelt in the.land of.Nod the.east of.Eden

*JPS 1917:* And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

[Genesis 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.14/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֨ם הַנָּהָ֤ר הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙ חִדֶּ֔קֶל ה֥וּא הַֽהֹלֵ֖ךְ קִדְמַ֣ת אַשּׁ֑וּר וְהַנָּהָ֥ר הָֽרְבִיעִ֖י ה֥וּא פְרָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.river (the) third \[is\].Tigris it \[is\].the \[one.which\].goes the.east of.Assyria and the river (the) fourth it \[is.the\].Euphrates

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6926.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6926/): 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).