Strong H6924H6924Aקֶ֫דֶם
East
One of the 5 senses of Strong H6924
- Transliteration
- qedem qêdmâh
- Pronunciation
- {keh'-dem} kayd'-maw
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
This name means east, antiquity, front
General definition
From H6923; the {front} of palce (absolutely the fore {part} relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially ({before } {anciently } eastward): - {aforetime} ancient ({time}) {before} east ({end} {part} {side} {-ward}) {eternal} X ever ({-lasting}) {forward} {old} past. Compare H6926 .
In the biblical story
East
A direction associated with invading armies and nomadic tribes.
In the Bible, the East is often associated with invading armies and nomadic tribes (Judges 6:3, 33; 7:12; 8:10; Ezekiel 25:4, 10).
In the Bible
Strong H6924A appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- east6
First verses
- Judges 6:3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
- Judges 6:33Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
- Judges 7:12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
- Judges 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
- Ezekiel 25:4Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
- Ezekiel 25:10Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.