Strong's #6924: qedem (pronounced keh'-dem)
or qedmah {kayd'-maw}; from 6923; the front, of place (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 6926.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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qedem / qêdmâh
1) east, antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime (noun masculine)
1a) front, from the front or east, in front, mount of the East
1b) ancient time, aforetime, ancient, from of old, earliest time
1c) anciently, of old (adverb)
1d) beginning
1e) east
2) eastward, to or toward the East (adverb)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H6923
Usage:
This word is used 87 times:
Psalms 68:33: "To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty"
Psalms 74:2: "Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this"
Psalms 74:12: "For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth."
Psalms 77:5: "I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times."
Psalms 77:11: "surely I will remember thy wonders of old."
Psalms 78:2: "I will utter dark sayings of old:"
Psalms 119:152: "Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them forever."
Psalms 139:5: "Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon"
Psalms 143:5: "I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse"
Proverbs 8:22: "possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old."
Proverbs 8:23: "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth"
Isaiah 2:6: "of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves"
Isaiah 9:12: "The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour"
Isaiah 11:14: "they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom"
Isaiah 19:11: "am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"
Isaiah 23:7: "Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry"
Isaiah 37:26: "heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed"
Isaiah 45:21: "who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time?"
Isaiah 46:10: "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not"
Isaiah 51:9: "O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou"
Jeremiah 30:20: "Their children also shall be as formerly, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish"
Jeremiah 46:26: "and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 49:28: "and spoil the men of the east."
Lamentations 1:7: "that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand"
Lamentations 2:17: "that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied:"
Lamentations 5:21: "and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."
Ezekiel 8:16: "the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east."
Ezekiel 8:16: "and they worshiped the sun toward the east."
Ezekiel 11:23: "and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city."
Ezekiel 25:4: "therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make"
Ezekiel 25:10: "Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that"
Ezekiel 45:7: "portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward,"
Jonah 4:5: "of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made"
Micah 5:2: "ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
Micah 7:20: "thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old."
Habakkuk 1:12: "Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not"
Zechariah 14:4: "which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives"
