BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6935
qad.mo.ni — Kadmonite
Someone descended from Kadmon(?), only mentioned at Gen.15.19 § Kadmonites = "easterners" a people who occupied the land of Canaan when God promised it to Abram
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Orientals, the name of a Canaanitish tribe which inhabited the north-eastern part of Palestine in the time of Abraham (Gen. 15:19). Probably they were identical with the “children of the east,” who inhabited the country between Palestine and the Euphrates.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
