קָדִים qâdîym

Meaning

the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)

In the King James Version: east(-ward, wind).

Derivation: or קָדִם; from H6923 (קָדַם);

Where it is used

• Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
• Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
• Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Habakkuk 1:9 All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.