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Strong's #8543: tmowl (pronounced tem-ole')

or tmol {tem-ole'}; probably for 865; properly, ago, i.e. a (short or long) time since; especially yesterday, or (with 8032) day before yesterday:--+ before (-time), + these (three) days, + heretofore, + time past, yesterday.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ

temôl

1) before, before that time, beforetime, heretofore, of late, of old, these days, time(s) past, yesterday, day before yesterday, recently, formerly

1a) yesterday

1a1) recently, formerly (usual usage) (figuratively)

1b) as formerly, so more recently

1c) from yesterday, already

Part of Speech: adverb

Relation: probably for H865



Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

Genesis 31:2: "and, behold, it was not toward him as before."
Genesis 31:5: "that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been"
Exodus 4:10: "am not eloquent, neither heretofore,"
Exodus 5:7: "straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather"
Exodus 5:8: "which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not"
Exodus 5:14: "your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as heretofore?"
Exodus 5:14: "yesterday and today, as heretofore?"
Exodus 21:29: "But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner,"
Exodus 21:36: "that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not"
Deuteronomy 4:42: "unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing"
Deuteronomy 19:6: "inasmuch as he hated him not in time past."
Joshua 3:4: "ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore."
Joshua 4:18: "and flowed over all his banks, as they did before."
Joshua 20:5: "unwittingly, and hated him not formerly."
Ruth 2:11: "which thou knewest not heretofore."
1 Samuel 20:27: "of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?"
1 Samuel 21:5: "unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men"
2 Samuel 3:17: "Ye sought for David in times past"
2 Samuel 15:20: "Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go"
2 Kings 13:5: "and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as formerly."
1 Chronicles 11:2: "And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king,"
Job 8:9: "(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon"









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