Strong’s H6927 · Hebrew
קַדְמָה
qadmâh · kad-maw'
Origin from קָדַם (H6923);
Meaning priority (in time); also used adverbially (before)
In the King James Version afore, antiquity, former (old) estate.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 129:6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.