Lexical Definition

‎קִדְמָה‎ qidmâh (kid-maw') east ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎קֶדֶם‎

east(-ward).

• the forward part (or relatively) East (often adverbially, on the east or in front)

1) forward, front, east, antiquity, East
1a) in front of, over against, front
1b) on the east of, east

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎קִדְמָה‎] noun feminine front, East; — only construct ‎קִדְמַת‎ as preposition:

1. in front of, over against (compare Nö^{ZMG xxxiii (1879), 532}), Gen 2:14 (i.e. from standpoint of writer; really, on geographic grounds, = west of; yet see Di^{ed. 6}), Gen 4:16 (both J),

2. on the east of, Ezek 39:11; 1Sam 13:5 may be either.

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