קַדְמָה
kadma · former state
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6927 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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kadma (קַדְמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “former state”.
Before, first in time; also the former state of something.
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
- What there was before: the original condition to which something returns.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- former state ×3
- as in your former times ×1
- which before ×1
- whose origin ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 129:6
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which before it is pulled up withers,
- Isaiah 23:7
Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from the days of old? Its feet carried it far away to reside as an alien.
- Ezekiel 16:55
And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
- Ezekiel 36:11
And I will multiply on you human being and livestock, and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will settle you as in your former times, and I will do more good than at your beginnings; and you will know that I am YHWH.
And 2 more times.