Strong's #2962: terem (pronounced 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ṭerem
1) before, not yet, before that
Part of Speech: preposition
Relation: from an unused root apparently meaning to interrupt or suspend
Usage:
This word is used 55 times:
Genesis 2:5: "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb"
Genesis 2:5: "and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God"
Genesis 19:4: " But before they lay down, the men even the men of Sodom, compassed"
Genesis 24:15: "And it came to pass, before he speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out,"
Genesis 24:45: " And before I had done in mine heart, behold, Rebekah"
Genesis 27:4: "that my soul may bless thee before I die."
Genesis 27:33: "is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before"
Genesis 37:18: "And when they saw him afar off, even before unto them, they conspired against him to slay"
Genesis 41:50: "were born two before the years of famine came, which"
Genesis 45:28: "alive: I will go and see him before I die."
Exodus 1:19: "they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto"
Exodus 9:30: "and thy servants, I know ye will not yet fear the LORD"
Exodus 10:7: "the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?"
Exodus 12:34: "took before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes"
Leviticus 14:36: "that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see"
Numbers 11:33: "was yet between ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled"
Deuteronomy 31:21: "which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land"
Joshua 2:8: " And before they were laid down, came up unto them upon the roof;"
Joshua 3:1: "the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over."
Judges 14:18: "said day before the sun went down, What is sweeter"
1 Samuel 2:15: "Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came,"
1 Samuel 3:3: " And ere the lamp of God in the temple of the LORD, where"
1 Samuel 3:7: "Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet"
1 Samuel 3:7: "the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto"
1 Samuel 9:13: "into the city, ye shall straightway him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for"
2 Kings 2:9: "Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha"
2 Kings 6:32: "him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to"
Job 10:21: " Before I go whence I shall not even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;"
Psalms 39:13: "O spare me, that I may recover strength, before hence, and be no"
Psalms 58:9: " Before your pots can feel he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in"
Psalms 90:2: " Before the mountains were brought forth, the earth and the world, even from everlasting"
Psalms 119:67: " Before I was afflicted but now have I kept thy word."
Proverbs 8:25: " Before the mountains were settled, the hills was I brought forth:"
Proverbs 18:13: "He that answereth a matter before it, it is folly and shame"
Proverbs 30:7: "of me them not before I die:"
Isaiah 7:16: "For before the child to refuse the evil, and choose the good,"
Isaiah 8:4: "For before the child to cry, My father, and my mother,"
Isaiah 17:14: "And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This"
Isaiah 28:4: "a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth,"
Isaiah 42:9: "do I declare: before they spring forth I tell"
Isaiah 48:5: "I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before I showed it thee: lest thou shouldest say,"
Isaiah 65:24: "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, will answer; and while they are yet speaking,"
Isaiah 66:7: " Before she travailed, she brought forth; her pain came, she was delivered of a man child."
Isaiah 66:7: "Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child."
Jeremiah 1:5: " Before I formed thee in the belly thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb"
Jeremiah 1:5: "I formed thee in the belly thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified"
Jeremiah 13:16: "glory to the LORD before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble"
Jeremiah 13:16: "before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark"
Jeremiah 38:10: "Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die."
Jeremiah 47:1: "the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza."
