Strong's #6927: qadmah (pronounced kad-maw')
from 6923; priority (in time); also used adverbially (before):--afore, antiquity, former (old) estate.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qadmâh
1) antiquity, former state or estate or situation, before, origin
1a) antiquity, beginning, origin
1b) former state or situation
1c) before
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H6923
Usage:
This word is used 6 times:
Psalms 129:6: "as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up:"
Isaiah 23:7: "Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry"
Ezekiel 16:55: "Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate,"
Ezekiel 16:55: "and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate."
Ezekiel 16:55: "then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate."
Ezekiel 36:11: "and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know"