Words the Bible translates as before
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 21 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- panehפָּנֶהthe position words built on this noun: before, in front of, away from, and so because of
+2 more meanings
- the face: the front of a person's head, the look it carries, and the presence of the one who turns it toward you
- the front or surface of a thing: the outer side it turns toward you
- enōpionἐνώπιονbeforenot studied yet
- proπρόbeforenot studied yet
- enantiἔναντιbeforenot studied yet
- emprosthenἔμπροσθενin front of, or in the presence of: it sets one person or thing facing another, reaching from a physical spot all the way to standing before God himself
- negedנֶגֶדin front of: in someone's open view, whether facing them, in their plain sight, or standing over against them
- katenantiκατέναντιbeforenot studied yet
- qedemקֶדֶםeast, or what lies in front: the direction of the sunrise, the eastern side of a place, and the lands and peoples that way
+1 more meaning
- ancient time: the remote past, the days of old, the earliest times reaching back to the world's beginning
- prinπρίνbeforenot studied yet
- teremטֶרֶםbeforenot studied yet
- proterosπρότεροςbeforenot studied yet
- qodamקֳדָםin front of, or in the presence of, someone or something (especially a king or God)
- mulמוּלthe front of something, and so the place facing or across from it: in front of, opposite, over against
- qevelקֳבֵלa linking word that sets one thing over against another: facing it in place (in front of, opposite) or answering to it in thought (because, therefore, according to)
- nokhaḥנֹכַחdirectly in front of or opposite: the position of facing something head-on
- shilshomשִׁלְשֹׁםin the past, previously; the second half of the set phrase "yesterday and the day before," which means "formerly" or "as things used to be."
- temolתְּמוֹלthe recent past: "yesterday," and by extension "previously, up to now"
- teḥillahתְּחִלָּהthe beginning of something: its first point or earliest stage; in adverb form, "first," "at first," or "formerly."
- katenōpionκατενώπιονbefore, in the presence of: directly in front of and in the sight of a person, above all God
- negedנֶגֶדbeforenot studied yet
- qavalקָבָלbeforenot studied yet
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