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