- קדם
- קָדָם, קֳדָםm. (preced.) (precedence, 1) (prepos. of time and place) before. Targ. Gen. 29:26. Ib. 43:29; a. fr.With suffix of personal pronoun mostly in pl. Targ. Prov. 23:1 קָדָמָךְ ed. Lag. (oth. ed. קָדָמָיִךְ). Targ. Ps. 96:9 מן קֳדָמוֹי. Ib. 8 לִקְדָמוֹי; a. fr.Lev. R. s. 37 נפק … קדמויוכ׳ a proclamation went before him, and all the people came out to meet him. Lam. R. to III, 16; a. fr. 2) (conj.) a) ere, before; b) מן ק׳ since, because (h. מפני). Targ. Y. Gen. 13:10 ק׳ עד לא. Targ. Prov. 8:23. Ib. 25 Ms. (ed. קְדִים); a. fr.Targ. O. a. Y. II Ex. 19:18 מן ק׳ (Y. I מן בגלל).Y.Yeb.XII, 13a top; Y.Snh.I, 19a bot. קרבת קַדְמָנָא she came before us; ורקת קדמנא and spat in our presence; Y.M. Kat. III, 82a bot. קוּדְמֵינָא; Yeb.39b; a. e.V. קַדְמִין.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
