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Strong's H2962 טֶרֶם (terem)

Terem means “before” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2962 — kyrios (“Lord”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2962
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 49
Books 17

Strong's H2962 Quick Answer

Strong's H2962 טֶּרֶם (terem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. terem (teh'-rem) prep. 1. (properly) non-occurrence 2. used adverbially, not yet or before It has 49 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include before, ere, and not. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
terem (teh'-rem) prep. 1. (properly) non-occurrence 2. used adverbially, not yet or before
Usage
49 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
before, ere, and not

Meaning and Definition

terem (teh'-rem) prep. 1. (properly) non-occurrence 2. used adverbially, not yet or before [from an unused root apparently meaning to interrupt or suspend] KJV: before, ere, not yet.

Original Word
טֶּרֶם
Transliteration
terem
Morphology
Preposition

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2962. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2962 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render terem, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

before Genesis 19:4 39× ere Exodus 1:19 not Genesis 2:5

How Strong's H2962 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 49 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2962 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2962 in the Old Testament

49 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 2:5 KJV

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Genesis 19:4 KJV

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Genesis 24:15 KJV

And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Usage Excerpts

First 49 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2962.

Genesis 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Genesis 19:4 Old Testament, KJV
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Genesis 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Genesis 24:45 Old Testament, KJV
And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
Genesis 27:4 Old Testament, KJV
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis 27:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
Genesis 37:18 Old Testament, KJV
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Genesis 41:50 Old Testament, KJV
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis 45:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
Exodus 1:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus 9:30 Old Testament, KJV
But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.
Exodus 10:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Exodus 12:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Leviticus 14:36 Old Testament, KJV
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
Numbers 11:33 Old Testament, KJV
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Deuteronomy 31:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Joshua 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
Joshua 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Judges 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
1 Samuel 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
1 Samuel 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
1 Samuel 3:7 Old Testament, KJV
Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.
1 Samuel 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
2 Kings 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
2 Kings 6:32 Old Testament, KJV
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
Job 10:21 Old Testament, KJV
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Psalms 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psalms 39:13 Old Testament, KJV
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 58:9 Old Testament, KJV
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms 90:2 Old Testament, KJV
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psalms 119:67 Old Testament, KJV
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Proverbs 8:25 Old Testament, KJV
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Proverbs 18:13 Old Testament, KJV
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Proverbs 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Isaiah 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Isaiah 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 17:14 Old Testament, KJV
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah 28:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah 42:9 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah 48:5 Old Testament, KJV
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Isaiah 65:24 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Isaiah 66:7 Old Testament, KJV
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Jeremiah 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 13:16 Old Testament, KJV
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Jeremiah 38:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Jeremiah 47:1 Old Testament, KJV
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
Ezekiel 16:57 Old Testament, KJV
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Zephaniah 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
Haggai 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2962, grouped by book.

Genesis 9 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2962 FAQ

What does terem (טֶרֶם) mean?

Terem (Strong's H2962) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "before". terem (teh'-rem) prep. 1. (properly) non-occurrence 2. used adverbially, not yet or before

How many times is terem (טֶרֶם) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 49 linked usages for Strong's H2962 across 17 books.

Where can I study terem (טֶרֶם) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2962 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate terem (טֶרֶם)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as before, ere, and not. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.