שִׁלְשׁוֹם
shilshôwm · H8032 · Hebrew · 24 occurrences
Meanings
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Reference to times in the past when a certain activity used to take place repeatedly ((what used to be done) before, in the past)
ExamplesGenesis 31:2 And Jacob saw the attitude of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as it had been before.
Genesis 31:5 and said to them, “I see your father’s attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
Exodus 4:10 Then Moses said to the LORD, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
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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Near synonyms 4 words
- אֶתְמוֹל ʼethmôwl · H865 · yesterday, (what used to be done) before, in the past
- Both are temporal adverbs or phrases referring to past time, such as "yesterday," "heretofore" and "time past," and can substitute for each other in expressing prior time.
- תְּמוֹל tᵉmôwl · H8543 · yesterday, (what used to be done) before, in the past
- Both refer to past time, such as "heretofore," "time past," "yesterday" and "before," conveying "previously" or "in the past."
- אֶמֶשׁ ʼemesh · H570 · twilight, evening, last night
- Both lexemes are genuine temporal adverbs referring to past time: אֶמֶשׁ (ʼemesh, H570) "yesterday(-night)" and שִׁלְשׁוֹם (shilshôwm, H8032) "before that time, time past, three days, heretofore." These are distinct Hebrew words with overlapping past-time reference, true same-language near-synonyms that could substitute contextually.
- קַדְמָה qadmâh · H6927 · ancient time, long ago, previously
- Both words denote past time or anteriority, sharing the same basic temporal-reference sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Temporal Referents003002006
- This adverbial expression denotes a prior time, as in Genesis 31:2's observation that Laban's attitude toward Jacob was no longer as friendly as it had been before.
Word family 1 word
This word has no family of its own: these words share its root.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8032. shilshowm שִׁלְשֹׁם and (less often) שִׁלְשׁוֺם25 adverb = three days ago,…
שִׁלְשֹׁם and (less often) שִׁלְשׁוֺם25
adverb = three days ago, specifically day before yesterday (Köii. 1. 255 f. LagBN 20 Anm. BaNB § 216 b); — in phrase שׁ ׳תְּמוֺל Exo 5:8 yesterday (and) day before, idiomatic for hitherto, so Rth 2:11, שׁ ׳אֶתְמוֺל 1Sa 4:7; ׳כִּת ׳שׁ Gen 31:2, Gen 31:5 (E), Exo 5:7, Exo 5:14 (J), 2Ki 13:5, compare 1Sa 14:21; 1Sa 19:7; ׳גַּםתֿ ׳גַּםשֿׁ Exo 4:10 (J), 2Sa 3:17; 1Ch 11:2, compare 2Sa 5:2; ׳מִתּ ׳שׁ from aforetime, previously Exo 21:29, Exo 21:36 (E), Deu 4:42; Deu 19:4, Deu 19:6; Jos 4:18 (J), Jos 3:4; Jos 20:5 (both R), compare 1Sa 10:11; ׳כִּת ׳שׁ 1Sa 21:6 as formerly (but Bu ׳מִתּ ׳שׁ = for some days). — ׳שׁ Pro 22:20 Kt is difficult; Qr שָׁלִשִׁים (see III. שָׁלִישׁ) is impossible; supply perhaps תְּמוֺל have I not thee heretofore, etc.?
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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