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# קַדְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6927

**antiquity** — used 6 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

antiquity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6927/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַדְמָה: n.f. antiquity, former state conj. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6927/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. antiquity, former state;— antiquity, beginning, sf. קַדְמָתָהּ Is 23:7 (of Tyre). former state, sf. קַדְמָתָן Ez 16:55(×2), קַדְמַתְכֶן v 55; pl. sf. קַדְמוֹתֵיכֶם 36:11. cstr. sg. = conj. before (temp.; Aramaic) שֶׁקַּדְמַת שָׁלַף ψ 129:6.

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 (3 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: their former (2); your former (2); before (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 129:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/#tree)

יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be like.\[the\] grass of.roofs which before it.has.shot.up it.has.withered

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;

[Isaiah 23:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.7/#tree)

הֲזֹ֥את לָכֶ֖ם עַלִּיזָ֑ה מִֽימֵי־קֶ֤דֶם קַדְמָתָהּ֙ יֹבִל֣וּהָ רַגְלֶ֔יהָ מֵֽרָח֖וֹק לָגֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\] this? your exultant.\[city\] \[is\].from days of.antiquity beginning its they have.carried.it feet its from a.distance to sojourn

*JPS 1917:* Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6927/): 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).