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STRONGS NUMBER H6921
Transliteration: qadim
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-deem')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: east, east wind
Meaning: the fore, front part, the East
Word Summary
qadim: east, east wind
Original Word: קָדִיםTransliteration: qadim
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-deem')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: east, east wind
Meaning: the fore, front part, the East
Strong's Concordance
eastward, wind Or qadim {kaw-deem'}; from qadam; the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind) -- east(-ward, wind).
see HEBREW qadam
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6921. qadim
קָדִים69 noun masculineHosea 13:15 East, east wind; — absolute ׳ק Genesis 41:6 +; with ה locative קָדִ֫ימָה Ezekiel 11:1 +, קָדִ֫מָה 48:4 +; —
1 (apart from Ezekiel) East, especially (הַ)קּ ׳רוּחַ wind of the East, east wind, often as violent and scorching, from desert on southeast, = Arabic sirocco ( eastern), compare DrAmos 4:9: Exodus 10:13 (twice in verse) (JE), 14:21 (J), Jeremiah 18:17 (simile), Jonah 4:8; Psalm 48:8; also ׳ק (רוּחַ omitted) = east wind Genesis 41:6, 23, 27 (E), Hosea 12:2; 13:15; Isaiah 27:8; Job 15:2; 27:21; 38:24; Psalm 78:26. — קָדִימָה Habakkuk 1:9 is dubious, usually eastward, i.e. forward, but text probably corrupt, compare We Now Da, GASm proposes מַקְדִּים (see also [מְגַמָּה] p. 169 above). 2 in Ezekiel (52 t.):
a. East הַקּ ׳רוּחַ east wind Ezekiel 17:10; 19:12; 27:26; east side 42:16 (+ north, south, west); הַקּ ׳שַׁעַר 40:44 (+ north, south); ק ׳מְּאַת 47:18, + west 48:6-7, 8, compare 48:1 (הַיָּם ׳פ ׳ק; but read ᵐ5 ׳מִמּ ׳ק פ ׳יְעַד יָמָּה Co Toy and others), + north, south, west, 48:16; קּ הַ ׳דֶּרֶךְ i.e. toward the east 40:10 7t., ׳מִדּ ׳הַקּ 43:2; ׳לַקּ 40:23 eastward (+ North) 41:14; ׳מֵהַקּ 42:9 on the East.
b. קָדִ֫ימָה = East: הַקּ ׳דֶּרֶךְ Ezekiel 40:6; קָדִימָה גְּבוּל 45:7; 48:21 (+ west); קָדִימָה מְּאַת 47:18, + west 48:3 8t., + north, south, west, 48:32.
c. as adverb קָדִ֫ימָה eastward Ezekiel 11:1; 44:1; 47:1; + west 45:7 (strike out Berthol Krae), 48:18, + north, south, west, 48:10; 48:17; also (הַ)קָּדִים eastward 40:19; 43:17; 46:1, 12; 47:1, 3, + north 47:2.