an-tik´wi-ti (קדמה, kÌ£adhmaÌ„h, from קד×, kÌ£aÌ„dham, “to precede in time,†“to be oldâ€): In ; , rendered “formerâ€; in , “before.†Translated “antiquity†only in to indicate the primeval age of Tyre, which Strabo terms, “after Sidon,†the oldest Phoenician city. Delitzsch renders it “whose origin is from the days of the olden time.