Quick Definition
yesterday
Strong's Definition
properly, ago, i.e. a (short or long) time since; especially yesterday, or day before yesterday
Derivation: or תְּמֹל; probably for H865 (אֶתְמוֹל); sometimes with H8032 (שִׁלְשׁוֹם)
KJV Usage: [phrase] before (-time), [phrase] these (three) days, [phrase] heretofore, [phrase] time past, yesterday.
TWOT Reference: 2521
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
תְּמוֹל (te.mol) — yesterday. 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) (fig) 1b) as formerly, so more recently 1c) from yesterday, already
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Temporal Referents
yesterday = reference to the day before the current day; sometimes used to refer to a point of time in the recent past as if it happened the day before
EXO 5:14 · 1SA 20:27 · 2SA 15:20 · JOB 8:9 · PSA 90:4 · ISA 30:33 · MIC 2:8
Temporal Referents
Collocation: תְּמֹול שִׁלְשֹׁום
(what used to be done) before, in the past = reference to times in the past when a certain activity used to take place repeatedly
GEN 31:2 · GEN 31:5 · EXO 4:10 · EXO 5:7 · EXO 5:8 · EXO 5:14 · EXO 21:29 · EXO 21:36 · DEU 4:42 · DEU 19:4 · DEU 19:6 · JOS 3:4 · JOS 4:18 · JOS 20:5 · RUT 2:11 · 1SA 4:7 · 1SA 10:11 · 1SA 14:21 · 1SA 19:7 · 1SA 21:6 · 2SA 3:17 · 2SA 5:2 · 2KI 13:5 · 1CH 11:2
1 MIC 2:8 MT HOTTP-B NIV | RSV NRSV GNT ואתם לעמי "but you (rise up) against my people" | REB ואתם לאֹ עמי "but you are not my people" | NJPS "but an enemy arises against my people"
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
תְּמוֹל (תְּמֹל) 23, אֶתְמוֹל 5, אִתְמוֹל, אֶתְמוּל subst., used sts. as adv.acc., yesterday, fig. recently, formerly base