STRONGS NUMBER H6926


Word Summary
qidmah: front, east
Original Word: קִדְמָה
Transliteration: qidmah
Phonetic Spelling: (kid-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: front, east
Meaning: the forward part, East
Strong's Concordance
eastward

Feminine of qedem; the forward part (or relatively) East (often adverbially, on the east or in front) -- east(-ward).

see HEBREW qedem

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6926. qidmah

[קִדְמָה‎] noun feminine front, East; — only construct קִדְמַת‎ as preposition:

1 in front of, over against (compare NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 532), Genesis 2:14 (i.e. from standpoint of writer; really, on geographic grounds, = west of; yet see Died. 6), 4:16 (both J),

2 on the east of, Ezekiel 39:11; 1 Samuel 13:5 may be either.