shilshom · day before yesterday

What it means

shilshom (שִׁלְשׁוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “day before yesterday”.

The day before yesterday; formerly. With "yesterday" 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. In times gone by, as until now.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• before ×15
• previously ×3
• some time now ×3
• past ×2
• beforehand ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×6
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×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 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.

• 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 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.’”

• 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.’”