kadmoni · former, eastern

What it means

kadmoni (קַדְמוֹנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “former, eastern”.

Ancient, of earlier times; of place, eastern (the "eastern sea" is the Dead Sea).

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. What comes from ancient times, from before.
2. What is on the east side, where the sun rises.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• eastern ×5
• former ×2
• ancient things ×1
• ancients ×1
• those before ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• 1 Samuel 24:13

  As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘From the wicked comes wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.

• Job 18:20

  At his day those after are appalled, and horror seizes those before.

• Isaiah 43:18

  “Do not remember the former things, and the ancient things do not consider.

• Ezekiel 10:19

  And the cherubim lifted their wings and rose from the earth before my eyes as they went out, and the wheels alongside them; and it stood at the entrance of the eastern gate of the house of YHWH, and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.

• Ezekiel 11:1

  And a spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the house of YHWH, which faces east; and look, at the entrance of the gate twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

• Ezekiel 38:17

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?

• Ezekiel 47:18

  And the east side, from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the border to the eastern sea you shall measure. And this is the east side.

• Joel 2:20

  And the northerner I will remove far from you, and I will drive him into a land dry and desolate, his front toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea; and his stench will go up, and his foul smell will go up, for he has done great things.

• Zechariah 14:8

  And it will happen on that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter it will be so.

• Malachi 3:4

  And the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to YHWH as in the days of old and as in former years.