HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6932
קְדֵמוֹת
qe.de.mot — Kedemoth
§ Kedemoth = "eastern" one of the towns in the district east of the Dead Sea allotted to the tribe of Reuben and given to the Merarite Levites
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Kedemoth
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Beginnings; easternmost, a city of Reuben, assigned to the Levites of the family of Merari (Josh. 13:18). It lay not far north-east of Dibon-gad, east of the Dead Sea.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.