Lexical Definition

‎קַדְמוֹנִי‎ qadmôwnîy (kad-mo-nee') eastern ^H:A
or קַדְמֹנִי qadmônîy (kad-mo-nee'); from ‎קַדְמוֹן‎

ancient, they that went before, east, (thing of) old.

• (of time) anterior or (of place) oriental

1) former, ancient, eastern
1a) former, ancient
1b) eastern

Extended Information

meaning of: קַדְמוֹנִי

• : older

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎קַדְמֹנִי‎ adjective former, eastern (on formation see Lag^{BN 195} Ba^{NB, § 227d}); — absolute ‎׳‎‎ק‎ 1Sam 24:14* (Gi v.1Sam 24:13*), Joel 2:20 ‎מ֑וֺנִי‎ Ezek 10:19 +; masculine plural ‎קַדְמֹנִים‎ Job 18:20, ‎מ֑וֺנִים‎ Ezek 38:17 feminine plural ‎קַדְמֹנִיּוֺת‎ Isa 43:18; Mal 3:4 —

1. former, ancient, ‎׳‎‎יָמִים ק‎ Ezek 38:17 former days; ‎׳‎‎שָׁנִים ק‎ Mal 3:4 (|| ‎יְמֵי עוֺלָם‎): feminine plural as n., former things Isa 43:18 (|| ‎רִאשֹׁנוֺת‎); masculine singular as collective noun ‎מְשַׁל‎ ‎הַקַּדְמֹנִי‎ 1Sam 24:14* a proverb of the ancients.

2. eastern: of ‎שַׁעַר‎ Ezek 10:19; Ezek 11:1, ‎יָם‎ (i.e. Dead Sea) Ezek 47:18 and (opposed to ‎הַיָּם הָאַחֲרוֺן‎) Zech 14:8; Joel 2:20 masculine plural as noun Easterns, those of the east (opposed to west) Job 18:20 (so Ew De Hi Di Bae Du; Vrss earlier and later, so Da and others [both future], Bu former generations [now in Sh®°ôl], and future).

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