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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 - No plant of the field was yet in the eretz, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the eretz. There was not a man to till the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sedom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rivka came out, who was born to Betu'el the son of Milkah, the wife of Nachor, Avraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rivka came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:4 - Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Yitzchak trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - To Yosef were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera Kohen of On, bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - Yisra'el said, "It is enough. Yosef my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - The midwives said to Par`oh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Mitzrian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:30 - But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear the LORD God."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - Par`oh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, their God. Don't you yet know that Mitzrayim is destroyed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - The Kohen shall command that they empty the house, before the Kohen goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the Kohen shall go in to inspect the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Yehoshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Yarden, he and all the children of Yisra'el; and they lodged there before they passed over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Yes, before they burnt the fat, the Kohen's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the Kohen; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:3 - and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Shemu'el had laid down to sleep, in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:7 - Now Shemu'el didn't yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:9 - It happened, when they had gone over, that Eliyah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the Zakenim were sitting with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the Zakenim, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:13 - Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 - Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:2 - Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever you had formed the eretz and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:67

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:67 - Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:25 - Before the mountains were settled in place, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:13 - He who gives answer before he hears, That is folly and shame to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:7 - "Two things I have asked of you; Don't deny me before I die:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Dammesek and the spoil of Shomron shall be carried away before the king of Ashshur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - At evening, behold, terror; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:9 - Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:24 - It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7 - Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - Then the king commanded `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Yirmeyahu the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the Pelishtim, before that Par`oh struck `Aza.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:57

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Pelishtim, who do despite to you round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 - before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes on you, before the day of the LORD's anger comes on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:15 - Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of the LORD.
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