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title: קְדֵמוֹת — Kedemoth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְדֵמוֹת (6932), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Kedemoth. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְדֵמוֹת

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«קְדֵמוֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kedemoth** — 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:** 6932 · **BDB:** קְדֵמֹת

### Glosses

Kedemoth (3); of.Kedemoth (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kedemoth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6932/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6932/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Reuben (Moab) Κεδ(α)μωθ, Καδημωθ, etc.; Jos 13:18, -מוֹת 21:37 1 Ch 6:64; hence מִדְבַּר קְדֵמוֹת Dt 2:26 of contiguous desert;—ק׳ lay N. of upper Arnon; not identified; BuhlGeogr. 268 conj. Umm-er-raṣâṣ, c. 10 m.; ENE. from Dibon (cf. TristrMoab 140 ff. BdPal. 3 (1898), 177).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְדֵמוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6932/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 13:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.18/)

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וְיַ֥הְצָה וּקְדֵמֹ֖ת וּמֵפָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* and (to) Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath

*JPS 1917:* and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

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[Deuteronomy 2:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.26/)

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וָאֶשְׁלַ֤ח מַלְאָכִים֙ מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר קְדֵמ֔וֹת אֶל־סִיח֖וֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן דִּבְרֵ֥י שָׁל֖וֹם לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and I.sent messengers from the.wilderness of.Kedemoth to Sihon the.king of.Heshbon words of.peace (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying:

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