Lexicon :: Strong's H2962 - ṭerem

Before Eliezer had finished speaking (praying), Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel the [fn]son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

“Before I had finished praying in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, ‘Please, let me have a drink.’

And when they saw him from a distance, even before he came close to them, they plotted to kill him.

Now two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

Now before the two men lay down [to sleep], Rahab came up to them on the roof,

Joshua got up early in the morning; then he and all the children of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they spent the night there before they crossed [the river].

“What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with [fn]my heifer,

You would not have solved my riddle.”

So she lay at his feet until the morning, but got up before anyone could recognize another; Boaz said, “[fn]Do not let it be known that the woman came to the threshing floor [last night].”

And when they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let a double [fn]portion of your spirit be upon me.”

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him [to behead Elisha]; but before the messenger arrived, Elisha told the elders, “Do you see how this son of [Jezebel] a murderer has sent [a man] to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it securely against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet [just] behind him?”

Before I go—and I shall not return—

To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],

“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy

Before I depart and am no more.”

Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],

He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

Before the mountains were born

Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

Before I was afflicted I went astray,

But now I keep and honor Your word [with loving obedience].

“Before the mountains were settled,

Before the hills, I was born;

He who answers before he hears [the facts]—

It is folly and shame to him.

Two things I have asked of You;

Do not deny them to me before I die:

At evening time, now look, sudden terror!

Before [fn]morning the Assyrians are no more.

This is the portion (fate) of those who plunder us,

And the lot of those who pillage us.

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the rich valley,

Will be like the early fig before the summer,

Which one sees,

And as soon as it is in his hand

He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

“Indeed, the former things have come to pass,

Now I declare new things;

Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

I have declared them to you long ago;

Before they came to pass I announced them to you,

So that you could not say, ‘My idol has done them,

And my carved image and my cast image have commanded them.’

“It shall also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

“Before she (Zion) was in labor, she gave birth;

Before her labor pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument],

And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own];

I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Give glory to the LORD your God,

Before He brings darkness

And before your feet stumble

On the dark and shadowy mountains,

And while you are longing for light

He turns it into the shadow of death,

And makes it into thick darkness.

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked and conquered [the Philistine city of] Gaza.

Before the decree takes effect [and the time for repentance is lost]—

The day passes like the chaff [whirled by the wind]—

Before the burning and fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you,

Before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you.