Former
קַדְמָהStrong’s H6927qadmah (qad-mah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qadmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “former state their”, “that before” and “beginning its”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:”
Meaning
- Antiquity, former state or estate or situation, before, originantiquity, beginning, origin · former state or situation conj · before
How it's translated
- to former state their 2
- that before 1
- beginning its 1
- to former state your 1
- like former state your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 23:7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
- Ezekiel 16:55When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
- Ezekiel 36:11And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
קַדְמָה qadmah · former
1) antiquity, former state or estate or situation, before, origin 1a) antiquity, beginning, origin 1b) former state or situation conj 1c) before Aramaic equivalent: qad.mah (קַדְמָה "previously" H6928)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “former” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORM'ER, noun
He that forms; a maker; an author.
All definitions and other forms of “former”
FOR'MER, adjective
comparative deg.
- Before in time; preceding another or something else in order of time; opposed to latter.“Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled” Deuteronomy 24:4
- Past, and frequently ancient, long past.“For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age” Job 8:8
- Near the beginning; preceding; as the former part of a discourse or argument.
- Mentioned before 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.