H6928–קַדְמָה–qad.mah

`And thus they have returned us word, saying, We `are' servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built many years before this, that a great king of Israel built and finished:

מִקַּדְמַ֤ת (קַּדְמַ֤ת) kad.Mat “[the] former time of”

And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing `it' before this.

קַדְמַ֖ת kad.Mat “[the] former time of”