etmol · yesterday, before

What it means

etmol (אֶתְמוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “yesterday, before”.

Yesterday; together with "the day before" it forms the expression "before", "in the past".

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 time that has just passed: before now, or the previous day.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• before ×4
• yesterday ×2
• long ago ×1
• some time now ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Micah×1

• 1 Samuel 4:7

  And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “Elohim has come into the camp!” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.

• 1 Samuel 10:11

  And it happened, when all who knew him before saw that he was prophesying with the prophets, that the people said to one another, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

• 1 Samuel 14:21

  And the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines as before, who had gone up with them into the camp all around, they too turned to be with Israel who were with Saul and Jonathan.

• 1 Samuel 19:7

  Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was before him as before.

• 2 Samuel 5:2

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

• Psalms 90:4

  For a thousand years in your eyes are like the day of yesterday when it passes, and like a watch in the night.

• Isaiah 30:33

  For Topheth has been prepared from long ago; it too for the king is made ready; he has made deep and wide its pyre, fire and wood in abundance; the breath of YHWH, like a torrent of sulfur, kindles it.

• Micah 2:8

  “And yesterday my people rose up as an enemy; from the front of the garment you strip the cloak from those who pass by trustingly, like those returning from war.