temol · yesterday

What it means

temol (תְּמוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “yesterday”.

Before, formerly. With "the day before" it forms the idiom "as before".

How to say it

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. The day that has just passed, right before today.
2. What was already so in times past, up to now.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• before ×9
• yesterday ×5
• past ×3
• previously ×3
• some time now ×2
• beforehand ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×7
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1

• Genesis 31:2

  And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and look, it was not with him as before.

• Genesis 31:5

  He said to them, “I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before; but the Elohim of my father has been with me.

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to YHWH, “Please, Adonai, I have never been a man of words, either in the past or before that or since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.”

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give straw to the people to make bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 5:8

  But the quota of bricks that they were making before you shall impose on them; you shall not reduce any of it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.’

• Exodus 5:14

  And the supervisors of the sons of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, being told, “Why have you not completed your quota of making bricks as before, both yesterday and today?”

• Exodus 21:29

  But if an ox has been given to goring in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

• Exodus 21:36

  Or if it is known that the ox has been given to goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely repay, ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his.

• Deuteronomy 4:42

  for the manslayer to flee there, who kills his neighbor unknowingly, and he did not hate him previously, so that by fleeing to one of these cities he may live:

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives: whoever strikes his neighbor without knowing it, and he did not hate him previously,

• Deuteronomy 19:6

  so that the avenger of blood does not pursue the manslayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, though he did not deserve a sentence of death, since he did not hate him previously.

• Joshua 3:4

  But there shall be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you are to go, for you have not passed this way before.”

• Joshua 4:18

  And it came about, when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of YHWH came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the feet of the priests were pulled up onto the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as before over all its banks.

• Joshua 20:5

  And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not hand over the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him beforehand.

• Ruth 2:11

  Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully told to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you abandoned your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not know before.

• 1 Samuel 20:27

  And it came about on the day after the new moon, the second day, that the place of David was empty; and Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the meal?”

• 1 Samuel 21:5

  David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women have been kept from us as yesterday and the day before when I set out, and the things of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more today will they be holy in their things!”

• 2 Samuel 3:17

  Abner’s word had been with the elders of Israel, saying, “For some time now you have been seeking David as king over you.

• 2 Samuel 15:20

  Yesterday you came, and today shall I make you wander with us in going, while I go wherever I may go? Go back, and take back your brothers with you. Loyal love and faithfulness be with you.”

• 2 Kings 13:5

  YHWH gave Israel a savior, and they went out from under the hand of Aram; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.

• 1 Chronicles 11:2

  For some time now, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led out and brought in Israel; and YHWH your Elohim said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people, Israel, and you will be leader over my people Israel.’”

• Job 8:9

  For we are of yesterday and do not know, for our days are a shadow on earth.

And 1 more times.