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# קְדֵמוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6932

**Kedemoth** — 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

Kedemoth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6932/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְדֵמֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6932/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Reuben (Moab) Κεδ(α)μωθ, Καδημωθ, etc.; Jos 13:18, -מוֹת 21:37 1 Ch 6:64; hence מִדְבַּר קְדֵמוֹת Dt 2:26 of contiguous desert;—ק׳ lay N. of upper Arnon; not identified; BuhlGeogr. 268 conj. Umm-er-raṣâṣ, c. 10 m.; ENE. from Dibon (cf. TristrMoab 140 ff. BdPal. 3 (1898), 177).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kedemoth (3); of Kedemoth (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.18/#tree)

וְיַ֥הְצָה וּקְדֵמֹ֖ת וּמֵפָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* and (to) Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath

*JPS 1917:* and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

[Deuteronomy 2:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.26/#tree)

וָאֶשְׁלַ֤ח מַלְאָכִים֙ מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר קְדֵמ֔וֹת אֶל־סִיח֖וֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן דִּבְרֵ֥י שָׁל֖וֹם לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and I.sent messengers from the.wilderness of.Kedemoth to Sihon the.king of.Heshbon words of.peace (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6932/): 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).