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Lexicon :: Strong's H2962 - ṭerem

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טֶרֶם
Transliteration
ṭerem
Pronunciation
teh'-rem
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Part of Speech
preposition
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root apparently meaning to interrupt or suspend
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TWOT Reference: 826

Strong’s Definitions

טֶרֶם ṭerem, teh'-rem; from an unused root apparently meaning to interrupt or suspend; properly, non-occurrence; used adverbially, not yet or before:—before, ere, not yet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H2962 in the following manner: before, ere, not yet, neither.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H2962 in the following manner: before, ere, not yet, neither.

  1. before, not yet, before that

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טֶרֶם ṭerem, teh'-rem; from an unused root apparently meaning to interrupt or suspend; properly, non-occurrence; used adverbially, not yet or before:—before, ere, not yet.
STRONGS H2962: Abbreviations
טֶ֫רֶם 54, once ([H2958 Ruth 3:14] Kt) טְרוֺם, adverb of time, not yet, ere, before that (derivation unknown: not found in cognate languages) — construed mostly with the imperfect (with the perfect only Genesis 24:15 (Genesis 24:45 imperfect), 1 Samuel 3:7a (1 Samuel 3:7b imperfect), and בְּטֶרֶם Psalm 90:2; Proverbs 8:25): —
1. † טֶרֶם in an independent sentence, not yet, Genesis 2:5 and all the plants of the field טרם יהיה בארץ were not yet in the earth, etc., Genesis 19:4 טרם ישׁכבו not yet had they lain down, when etc., Genesis 24:15, Genesis 24:45; Numbers 11:33; Joshua 2:8; 1 Samuel 3:3, 1 Samuel 3:7 (twice in verse); of present time, Exodus 9:30; Exodus 10:7 הֲטֶרֶם תֵּדַע dost thou not yet know, etc.?; in a subordinate clause, ere, before that, Exodus 12:34 they took their dough טרם יחמץ before it was leavened, Joshua 3:1; Psalm 119:67; of future time Isaiah 65:24. More frequently
2. בְּטֶרֶם 39, with the same force: of past time, Genesis 27:33 I ate of all בטרם תבא before thou camest, Genesis 37:18; Genesis 41:50; Judges 14:18; 1 Samuel 2:15; Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 47:1; Ezekiel 16:57; Psalm 90:2; Proverbs 8:25 (both with perfect); more often of present or future, as Genesis 27:4 בטרם אמות before I die (so Genesis 45:28, compare Psalm 39:14 [Psalm 39:13]; Job 10:21), Leviticus 14:36; Deuteronomy 31:21; 1 Samuel 9:13; 2 Kings 2:9; Isaiah 7:16; Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 48:5; Jeremiah 13:16; the imperfect with a frequently force, Exodus 1:19 before the midwife cometh, they are wont to bear, [H2958 Ruth 3:14]; Proverbs 18:13. Pleon. [Pleonastic] בְּטֶרֶם לֹא Zephaniah 2:2 (twice in verse). Construed with a substantive in the genitive, Isaiah 17:14 בְּטֶרֶם בֹּקֶר = ere morning, Isaiah 28:4 בְּטֶרֶם קַיִץ; with an infinitive Zephaniah 2:2a (but read here with Greek Version of the LXX We בְּטֶרֶם לאֹ תֵהְיוּן כְּמוֺץ עֹבֵר, without יוֺם, 'before ye become as chaff passing away').
3. מִטֶּרֶם Haggai 2:15 (followed by infinitive) מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּם אֶבֶן from before the laying of one stone upon another, etc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:5; 19:4; 24:15; 24:15; 24:45; 24:45; 27:4; 27:33; 37:18; 41:50; 45:28

Exodus

1:19; 9:30; 10:7; 12:34

Leviticus

14:36

Numbers

11:33

Deuteronomy

31:21

Joshua

2:8; 3:1

Judges

14:18

1 Samuel

2:15; 3:3; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 9:13

2 Kings

2:9

Job

10:21

Psalms

39:13; 90:2; 90:2; 119:67

Proverbs

8:25; 8:25; 18:13

Isaiah

7:16; 17:14; 28:4; 42:9; 48:5; 65:24

Jeremiah

1:5; 13:16; 47:1

Ezekiel

16:57

Zephaniah

2:2; 2:2

Haggai

2:15

H2962

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Strong's Number H2962 matches the Hebrew טֶרֶם (ṭerem),
which occurs 56 times in 49 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - And it cometh to pass, before he hath finished speaking, that lo, Rebekah (who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham) is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - 'Before I finish speaking unto my heart, then lo, Rebekah is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she goeth down to the fountain, and draweth; and I say unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:4 - and make for me tasteful things, such as I have loved, and bring in to me, and I do eat, so that my soul doth bless thee before I die.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - and Isaac trembleth a very great trembling, and saith, 'Who, now, is he who hath provided provision, and bringeth in to me, and I eat of all before thou comest in, and I bless him? -- yea, blessed is he.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - and Israel saith, 'Enough! Joseph my son is yet alive; I go and see him before I die.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively; before the midwife cometh in unto them -- they have borne!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:30 - but thou and thy servants -- I have known that ye are not yet afraid of the face of Jehovah God.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - And the servants of Pharaoh say unto him, 'Until when doth this one become a snare to us? send the men away, and they serve Jehovah their God; knowest thou not yet that Egypt hath perished?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - and the people taketh up its dough before it is fermented, their kneading-troughs are bound up in their garments on their shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - and the priest hath commanded, and they have prepared the house before the priest cometh in to see the plague (that all which is in the house be not unclean), and afterwards doth the priest come in to see the house;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - The flesh is yet between their teeth -- it is not yet cut off -- and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people -- a very great smiting;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - 'And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing to-day, before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - And -- before they lie down -- she hath gone up unto them on the roof,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - And the men of the city say to him on the seventh day, before the sun goeth in: -- 'What is sweeter than honey? And what stronger than a lion?' And he saith to them: 'Unless ye had ploughed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - And she lieth down at his feet till the morning, and riseth before one doth discern another; and he saith, 'Let it not be known that the woman hath come into the floor.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Also before they make perfume with the fat -- then hath the priest's servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, 'Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:3 - And the lamp of God is not yet extinguished, and Samuel is lying down in the temple of Jehovah, where the ark of God is,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:7 - And Samuel hath not yet known Jehovah, and the word of Jehovah is not yet revealed unto him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - At your going in to the city so ye do find him, before he doth go up in to the high place to eat; for the people do not eat till his coming, for he doth bless the sacrifice; afterwards they eat, who are called, and now, go up, for at this time ye find him.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:9 - And it cometh to pass, at their passing over, that Elijah hath said unto Elisha, 'Ask, what do I do for thee before I am taken from thee?' and Elisha saith, 'Then let there be, I pray thee, a double portion of thy spirit unto me;'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - And Elisha is sitting in his house, and the elders are sitting with him, and the king sendeth a man from before him; before the messenger doth come unto him, even he himself said unto the elders, 'Have ye seen that this son of the murderer hath sent to turn aside my head? see, at the coming in of the messenger, shut the door, and ye have held him fast at the door, is not the sound of the feet of his lord behind him?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:13 - Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 - Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:2 - Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:67

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:67 - Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:25 - Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:13 - Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:7 - Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This is the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That is on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it is yet in his hand he swalloweth it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:9 - The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - And I declare to thee from that time, Before it cometh I have caused thee to hear, Lest thou say, 'Mine idol hath done them, And my graven image, And my molten image did command them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:24 - And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7 - Before she is pained she hath brought forth, Before a pang cometh to her, She hath delivered a male.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - 'Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - And the king commandeth Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, 'Take with thee from this thirty men, and thou hast brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dieth.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1 - That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smiteth Gaza:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:57

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - Before thy wickedness is revealed, As at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 - Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:15 - And now, lay it, I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah.
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