East
קִדְמָהStrong’s H6926qidmah (qid-mah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qidmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “east of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.”
Meaning
- Forward, front, east, antiquity, Eastin front of, over against, front · on the east of, east
How it's translated
- east of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- 1 Samuel 13:5And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
- Ezekiel 39:11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
Hebrew dictionary
קִדְמָה qidmah · east
1) forward, front, east, antiquity, East 1a) in front of, over against, front 1b) on the east of, east
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “east” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EAST, noun
[Latin oriens, this word may belong to the root of hoise, hoist.]
- The point in the heavens, where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or when it is in the equinoctial, or the corresponding point on the earth; one of the four cardinal points.
- The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe, or other country.
All definitions and other forms of “east”
EAST, adjective
Towards the rising sun; or towards the point where the sun rises, when in the equinoctial; as the east gate; the east border; the east side. The east wind is a wind that blows from the east
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.