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טֶרֶם

terem · not yet, before

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2962 · appears 57 times in the Bible

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What it means

terem (טֶרֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “not yet, before”.

How to say it

te·rem

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Before something happens, while it has not yet taken place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Not yet; with a preposition, before, before that. It is an adverb of time that marks what has not yet happened when something else happens.

How we translate it

According to the construction: “before” (49 times) with a preposition; “yet” (5) or “had not yet” (3) when it stands alone. It is a function word, and it is rendered as the English sentence requires.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • before ×49
  • yet ×5
  • had not yet ×3

Where it appears

  • Genesis 2:5

    Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for YHWH Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the ground;

  • Genesis 19:4

    Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people from every quarter.

  • Genesis 24:15

    It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.

  • Genesis 24:45

    Before I had finished speaking in my heart, look, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

  • Genesis 27:4

    and make me tasty food such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

  • Genesis 27:33

    Isaac trembled with a great trembling, exceedingly, and said, “Who then was he who hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of all before you came, and I blessed him? Indeed, he will be blessed.”

  • Genesis 37:18

    They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they plotted against him to kill him.

  • Genesis 41:50

    To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

  • Genesis 45:28

    Israel said, “Enough! Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

  • Exodus 1:19

    The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and before the midwife comes to them they have given birth.”

  • Exodus 9:30

    But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear YHWH Elohim.”

  • Exodus 10:7

    Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve YHWH their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Egypt is ruined?”

  • Exodus 12:34

    So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

  • Leviticus 14:36

    The priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest comes to examine the mark, so that everything that is in the house does not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall come to examine the house.

  • Numbers 11:33

    The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, when the anger of YHWH burned against the people, and YHWH struck the people with a very great blow.

  • Deuteronomy 31:21

    And it shall be, when many evils and troubles have found them, that this song will testify before them as a witness, for it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their offspring. For I know their inclination, what they are doing today, before I bring them into the land that I swore.”

  • Joshua 2:8

    They had not yet lain down when she came up to them on the roof,

  • Joshua 3:1

    Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they spent the night there before they crossed.

  • Judges 14:18

    And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”

  • Ruth 3:14

    So she lay at his feet until the morning, and rose before a man could recognize his companion; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

  • 1 Samuel 2:15

    Even before they offered up the fat in smoke, the priest’s young man would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat to roast for the priest; he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”

  • 1 Samuel 3:3

    and the lamp of Elohim had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of YHWH, where the ark of Elohim was,

  • 1 Samuel 3:7

    Now Samuel did not yet know YHWH, and the word of YHWH had not yet been revealed to him.

  • 1 Samuel 9:13

    As soon as you enter the city, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited eat. So now go up, for about this time you will find him.”

  • 2 Kings 2:9

    And it happened, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I should do for you before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please, let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.”

  • 2 Kings 6:32

    Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And he sent a man from before him; before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold him back with the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

  • Job 10:21

    before I go, and do not return, to the land of darkness and shadow of death,

  • Psalms 5:5

    The boastful will not take their stand before your eyes; you hate all who work wickedness.

  • Psalms 39:13

    Look away from me, that I may smile before I go and am no more.

  • Psalms 58:9

    Before your pots feel the bramble, whether green or burning, he will sweep it away in a storm.

  • Psalms 90:2

    Before the mountains were born, or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from forever to forever you are El.

  • Psalms 119:67

    Before I was afflicted, I was going wrong; but now your saying I keep.

  • Proverbs 8:25

    Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth;

  • Proverbs 18:13

    Whoever answers a word before he hears, it is folly to him and humiliation.

  • Proverbs 30:7

    Two things I have asked of you; do not deny them to me before I die:

  • Isaiah 7:16

    For before the boy knows how to reject evil and choose good, the ground will be abandoned whose two kings you dread.

  • Isaiah 8:4

    for before the boy knows how to cry, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus will be carried away, and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Assyria.”

  • Isaiah 17:14

    At the time of evening, look, terror! Before morning it is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who despoil us.

  • Isaiah 28:4

    And the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness, will be like an early fig before the summer, which the one who sees sees it, and while it is still in his hand he swallows it.

  • Isaiah 42:9

    The former things, look, have come, and new things I declare; before they spring up I make you hear them.”

And 17 more times.