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title: קִדְמָה — front · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִדְמָה (6926), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: front. BDB 1906: n.f. front, East. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִדְמָה

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«קִדְמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **front** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 6926 · **BDB:** קִדְמָה

### Glosses

the.east (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

front [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6926/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. front, East [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6926/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. front, East;—only cstr. קִדְמַת as prep.: in front of, over against (cf. NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 532), Gn 2:14 (i.e. from standpoint of writer; really, on geogr. grounds, = W. of; yet v. Died. 6), 4:16 (both J). on the E. of, Ez 39:11; 1 S 13:5 may be either.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִדְמָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6926/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 4:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/)

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וַיֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב בְּאֶֽרֶץ־נ֖וֹד קִדְמַת־עֵֽדֶן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Cain from before Yahweh and he.dwelt in the.land of.Nod the.east of.Eden

*JPS 1917:* And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

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[Genesis 2:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.14/)

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וְשֵׁ֨ם הַנָּהָ֤ר הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙ חִדֶּ֔קֶל ה֥וּא הַֽהֹלֵ֖ךְ קִדְמַ֣ת אַשּׁ֑וּר וְהַנָּהָ֥ר הָֽרְבִיעִ֖י ה֥וּא פְרָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.river (the) third \[is\].Tigris it \[is\].the \[one.which\].goes the.east of.Assyria and the river (the) fourth it \[is.the\].Euphrates

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

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