Lexicon :: Strong's H2962 - ṭerem

no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land,[fn] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah ​— ​daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor ​— ​coming with a jug on her shoulder.

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’

“Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed! ”

They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.

Then Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go to see him before I die.”

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”

“But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD God.”

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Don’t you realize yet that Egypt is devastated? ”

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.

“The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterward the priest will come to examine the house.

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague.

“And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because[fn] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,[fn] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof

Joshua started early the next morning and left the Acacia Grove[fn] with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and stayed there before crossing.

On the seventh day, before sunset, the men of the city said to him:

What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?

So he said to them:

If you hadn’t plowed with my young cow,

you wouldn’t know my riddle now!

So she lay down at his feet until morning but got up while it was still dark.[fn] Then Boaz said, “Don’t let it be known that a[fn] woman came to the threshing floor.”

Even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the one who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he won’t accept boiled meat from you ​— ​only raw.”

Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

“As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests can eat. Go up immediately ​— ​you can find him now.”

When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken from you.”

So Elisha answered, “Please, let me inherit two shares of your spirit.”

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him? ”

“before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,

never to return.

“Turn your angry gaze from me

so that I may be cheered up

before I die and am gone.”

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns —

whether green or burning —

he will sweep them away.[fn]

Before the mountains were born,

before you gave birth to the earth and the world,

from eternity to eternity, you are God.

Before I was afflicted I went astray,

but now I keep your word.

“Before the mountains were established,

prior to the hills, I was given birth ​—

The one who gives an answer before he listens —

this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

Two things I ask of you;

don’t deny them to me before I die:

“For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.

“for before the boy knows how to call ‘Father,’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.”

In the evening ​— ​sudden terror!

Before morning ​— ​it is gone!

This is the fate of those who plunder us

and the lot of those who ravage us.

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,

which is on the summit above the rich valley,

will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.

Whoever sees it will swallow it

while it is still in his hand.

“The past events have indeed happened.

Now I declare new events;

I announce them to you before they occur.”

“therefore I declared to you long ago.

I announced it to you before it occurred,

so you could not claim, ‘My idol caused them;

my carved image and cast idol control them.’

“Even before they call, I will answer;

while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;

before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

I chose you before I formed you in the womb;

I set you apart before you were born.

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Give glory to the LORD your God

before he brings darkness,

before your feet stumble

on the mountains at dusk.

You wait for light,

but he brings darkest gloom[fn]

and makes total darkness.

So the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Cushite, “Take from here thirty men under your authority[fn] and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.”

This is the word of the LORD that came to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines before Pharaoh defeated Gaza.

“before your wickedness was exposed? It was like the time you were scorned by the daughters of Aram[fn] and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines ​— ​those who treated you with contempt from every side.

before the decree takes effect

and the day passes like chaff,

before the burning of the LORD’s anger overtakes you,

before the day of the LORD’s anger overtakes you.

“Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the LORD’s temple,