To meet
קָדַםStrong’s H6923qadam (qa-dam)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qadam is the Hebrew word usually translated “confronted me”, “met” and “confront it”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.”
Meaning
- To meet, come or be in front, confront, go before(Piel) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- they confronted me 4
- they met 2
- he will confront it 2
- they had met 1
- did they receive me 1
- they have confronted me 1
- has he confronted me 1
- confront 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 12
- Job 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
- 2 Samuel 22:19They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
- 2 Kings 19:32Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
- Nehemiah 13:2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
- Job 3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- Job 30:27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Hebrew dictionary
קָדַם qadam · to meet
1) to meet, come or be in front, confront, go before 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to meet, confront, come to meet, receive 1a2) to go before, go in front, be in front 1a3) to lead, be beforehand, anticipate, forestall 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to come in front 1b2) to confront, anticipate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “confront” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONFRONT, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To stand face to face in full view; to face; to stand in front.
- To stand in direct opposition; to oppose.
- To set face to face; to bring into the presence of; as a accused person and a witness, in court, for examination and discovery of the truth; followed by with.
- To set together for comparison; to compare one thing with another.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.