Personal name · Semitic
QE-DE-MI-NU
personal name, 'Easterner, Ancient one'
- Reading
- Qēdmīnu
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Malia
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- QE-DE-MI-NU
Commentary
Malia bar MA 1a/1b, after *47 on both faces; cf. KA-DU-MA-NE (HT 29). Ug. personal name Qdmn (Astour 1965, 152); Heb. qadmōnî (Gen 15:19).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry QE-DE-MI-NU.
- Ugaritic𐎖𐎄𐎎qdmqdm ‘east’ (Huehnergard 2012, glossary); qdmy ‘ancient; ancestral’ (DULAT 684); personal name Qdmn (Astour 1965, 152)
- Hebrewqedemqedem ‘east, ancient time’ (HALOT 1069); qadmōnî, the Kadmonites (Gen 15:19; HALOT 1071)
- Akkadianqudmuqudmu ‘early times; front’ (CAD Q 295)