Strong's #6923: qadam (pronounced kaw-dam')

a primitive root; to project (one self), i.e. precede; hence, to anticipate, hasten, meet (usually for help):--come (go, (flee)) before, + disappoint, meet, prevent.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâdam

1) to meet, come or be in front, confront, go before

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to meet, confront, come to meet, receive

1a2) to go before, go in front, be in front

1a3) to lead, be beforehand, anticipate, forestall

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to come in front

1b2) to confront, anticipate

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 26 times:

 

Deuteronomy 23:4: "Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way,"
2 Samuel 22:6: "compassed me about; the snares of death prevented"
2 Samuel 22:19: " They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay."
2 Kings 19:32: "an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank"
Nehemiah 13:2: "Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water,"
Job 3:12: "Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?"
Job 30:27: "not: the days of affliction prevented"
Job 41:11: "Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven"
Psalms 17:13: "Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked,"
Psalms 18:5: "compassed me about: the snares of death prevented"
Psalms 18:18: " They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay."
Psalms 21:3: "For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head."
Psalms 59:10: "The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies."
Psalms 68:25: "The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels."
Psalms 79:8: "iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low."
Psalms 88:13: "O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent"
Psalms 89:14: "of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face."
Psalms 95:2: " Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms."
Psalms 119:147: " I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word."
Psalms 119:148: "Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word."
Isaiah 21:14: "brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled."
Isaiah 37:33: "an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank"
Amos 9:10: "The evil shall not overtake nor prevent"
Jonah 4:2: "my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew"
Micah 6:6: "Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings,"
Micah 6:6: "and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?"