Words the Bible translates as former
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- rishonרִאשׁוֹןfirst: the one out in front, whether in a sequence, in time gone by, or in rank
- qedemקֶדֶםeast, or what lies in front: the direction of the sunrise, the eastern side of a place, and the lands and peoples that way
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- ancient time: the remote past, the days of old, the earliest times reaching back to the world's beginning
- archaiosἀρχαῖοςfrom the beginning: belonging to the time when the thing in view started, whether that is the far past or simply the first days of something recent
- qadmoniקַדְמֹנִיformer or ancient: belonging to the distant past, and so also the people who lived long ago
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- eastern: on the side toward the sunrise, used above all of the east gate and of the eastern sea
- qadmahקַדְמָהformernot studied yet
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