kadam · meet, go before

What it means

kadam (קָדַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “meet, go before”.

Go to meet: go ahead to receive someone; also to come before.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To go toward someone who is coming: to help him or to confront him.
2. To go ahead, or to arrive before another.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• meet ×11
• confronted me ×4
• come before it ×2
• shall I come before ×2
• went ahead of ×2
• I hurried ×1
• confront ×1
• has been first with me ×1
• receive me ×1
• went in front ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×12
• Isaiah×2
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Micah×2

• Deuteronomy 23:4

  because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor from Pethor of Aram-naharaim to curse you.

• 2 Samuel 22:6

  The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

• 2 Samuel 22:19

  They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but YHWH was my support.

• 2 Kings 19:32

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: He will not come into this city and will not shoot there an arrow, and will not come before it with a shield, and will not heap up against it a siege ramp.

• Nehemiah 13:2

  because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and he hired against him Balaam to curse him; but our Elohim turned the curse into a blessing.

• Job 3:12

  Why did knees receive me, and why breasts, that I should nurse?

• Job 30:27

  My inward parts boil and are not silent; days of affliction have come to meet me.

• Job 41:11

  Who has been first with me that I should repay him? What is under all the heavens is mine.

• Psalms 17:13

  Rise up, YHWH; go out to meet him, make him bend the knee; bring to safety my soul from the wicked with your sword,

• Psalms 18:5

  The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

• Psalms 18:18

  They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but YHWH was my support.

• Psalms 21:3

  For you go out to meet him with blessings of good; you set on his head a crown of fine gold.

• Psalms 59:10

  The Elohim of my loyal love will come to meet me; Elohim will let me look on those who lie in wait for me.

• Psalms 68:25

  The singers went in front, the players of strings behind, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.

• Psalms 79:8

  Do not remember against us the iniquities of the ancestors; quickly let your compassion come to meet us, for we have been brought low greatly.

• Psalms 88:13

  But I, to you, YHWH, have cried for help, and in the morning my prayer comes to meet you.

• Psalms 89:14

  Righteousness and justice are the base of your throne; loyal love and faithfulness come to meet your face.

• Psalms 95:2

  Let us come to meet his face with thanksgiving; with songs let us raise a shout to him.

• Psalms 119:147

  I went ahead of the dawn and cried for help; your word I have awaited.

• Psalms 119:148

  My eyes went ahead of the watches of the night, to reflect on your saying.

• Isaiah 21:14

  To meet the thirsty bring water, inhabitants of the land of Tema; with his bread meet the wanderer.

• Isaiah 37:33

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: He will not come into this city and will not shoot there an arrow, and will not come before it with a shield, and will not heap up against it a siege ramp.

• Amos 9:10

  By the sword all the sinners of my people will die, who say, “The evil will not come near or confront us.”

• Jonah 4:2

  And he prayed to YHWH and said, “I beg you, YHWH, was this not my word while I was still in my land? That is why I hurried to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are El, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and one who relents concerning evil.

• Micah 6:6

  With what shall I come before YHWH, and bow myself before the Elohim on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

And 1 more times.