קַדְמָה
kadma · former time
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H6928 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kadma (קַדְמָה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “former time”.
"before this" (Aramaic).
How to say it
kad·ma
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
- An earlier time; what has already passed (Aramaic).
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ezra 5:11
And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.
- Daniel 6:10
And Daniel, when he knew that the writing had been signed, went into his house; and he had windows open in his upper room toward Jerusalem; and three times a day he was kneeling on his knees and praying and giving thanks before his Elah, just as he had been doing before this.