טֶרֶם
ṭerem · H2962 · Hebrew · 56 occurrences
Meanings
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before, not yet
A reference to a point in the time preceding a particular event
ExamplesGenesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city—the men of Sodom—surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
Genesis 24:15 And it came about, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- πρό pró · G4253 · in front of, before, previous
- Both טֶרֶם (ṭerem, H2962) ("before, ere, not yet") and πρό (pró, G4253) ("fore, in front of, prior to") function as temporal prepositions denoting precedence in time: the Hebrew טֶרֶם marks temporal priority ("before X happened" or "not yet"), while Greek πρό likewise indicates anterior position in time or sequence; Greek translators regularly chose πρό to render טֶרֶם in expressions of "before."
- πρίν prín · G4250 · before, previous
- Greek πρίν renders Hebrew טֶרֶם in temporal priority contexts where both denote 'before' or 'prior to' a reference event, with substantial alignment overlap confirming direct translation equivalence across the Hebrew-to-Greek witness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- טֶרֶם is a temporal particle meaning 'before' or 'not yet,' marking an event as occurring prior to another point in time, used frequently across narrative and prophetic texts.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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