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# אֶתְמוֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H865

**yesterday** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

yesterday [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/865/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. sub תמל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: yesterday (7); of yesterday (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 90:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽעֵינֶ֗יךָ כְּי֣וֹם אֶ֭תְמוֹל כִּ֣י יַעֲבֹ֑ר וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה בַלָּֽיְלָה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.thousand years in eyes your \[are\].like a.day of.yesterday (dm) it.passes and a.watch in the night

*JPS 1917:* For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

[Micah 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.8/#tree)

וְאֶתְמ֗וּל עַמִּי֙ לְאוֹיֵ֣ב יְקוֹמֵ֔ם מִמּ֣וּל שַׂלְמָ֔ה אֶ֖דֶר תַּפְשִׁט֑וּן מֵעֹבְרִ֣ים בֶּ֔טַח שׁוּבֵ֖י מִלְחָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and yesterday people my to an.enemy he.raises.up from in.front.of a.garment a.mantle you strip.off from \[those.who\].pass.by security \[those.who\].turn.back of.war

*JPS 1917:* But of late My people is risen up as an enemy; with the garment ye strip also the mantle from them that pass by securely, so that they are as men returning from war.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/865.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/865/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).