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# תְּמוֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8543

**yesterday** — used 23 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/1514/8543/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּמוֹל: subst. adv.acc. yesterday [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8543/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (תְּמֹל)23, אֶתְמוֹל5, אִתְּמוֹל † 1 S 10:11, אֶתְמוּל †Is 30:33; Mi 2:8 (v. inf.), subst., used sometimes as adv.acc., yesterday, fig. recently, formerly (Aramaic אִתְּמָלֵי, תְּמָלֵי, sometimes אִתְּמוֹל, ܬܡܳܠ, ܐܶܬܡܳܠ, ܐܶܬܡܳܠܝ; Mand. עתמאל NöM 202; Ethiopic ትማልም Assyrian timâli, itimâli, ina timâli (Dl158, 721); der. dub.; according to MeGr Syriac 118 Köii 264 f. from Arabic مَلَا ii. prolongavit, iv. longam vitam concessit, مَلًا tempus, المَلَوَانِ the two times, i.e. night and day, in form an inf. of vi. تَمَالٍ; hence proposes long time, (past) time, specialized to yesterday);—yesterday, but usually fig. = recently or formerly: 2 S 15:20 תְּמוֹל בּוֹאֲךָ yesterday (= only lately) was thy coming, Jb 8:9 תמול אנחנו (of) yesterday (Ges§141d) are we, ψ 90:4 (genit.) כְּיוֹם אֶתְמוֹל. usually in combin. with שִׁלְשֹׁם yesterday (and) the third day, to express the idea of formerly: thus as adv. acc. (a) גַּם תְּמוֹל גַּם הַיּוֹם 1 S 20:27 (lit.), cf. Ex 5:14 (sub b); (b) תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשֹׁם Ex 5:8; Ru 2:11, so אֶתְמ׳ שׁ׳ 1 S 4:7; (c) גַּם ת׳ גַּם שׁ׳ 2 S 3:17; 1 Ch 11:2 (‖ 2 S 5:2 with אֶתְמ׳). כִּתְמוֹל שִׁלְשֹׁם as formerly Gn 31:2, 5; Ex 5:7; Jos 4:18; 1 S 21:6 (but Bu מִתְּ׳, as c), 2 K 13:5; כְּאֶתְמ׳ שׁ׳ 1 S 14:21; 19:7; Ex 5:14 כִּת׳ שׁ׳ גַּם תְּמוֹל גַּם הַיּוֹם as yesterday (and) the third day (= as formerly), both yesterday and to-day (= so more recently). מִתְּמוֹל שׁ׳ = (from) aforetime, Ex 21:29, 36; Jos 3:4, וְהוּא לֹא שׂנֵא לוֹ מִתְּ׳ שׁ׳ Dt 4:42; 19:4, 6; Jos 20:5; so מֵאִתְּמוֹל שׁ׳ 1 S 10:11; גַּם מִתְּ׳ גַּם מִשּׁ׳ Ex 4:10. מֵאֶתְמוּל (alone) Is 30:33 from yesterday = already; וְאֶתְמוּל עַמִּי Mi 2:8 corrupt, read וְאַתֶּם לְעַמִּי (WRS, with יָקוּם; עַל עַמִּי We Now, with תָּקוּמוּ), and v. שַׂלְמָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 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 (21); \[are\] yesterday (1); \[was\] yesterday (1).

## In the verses

[Job 8:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.9/#tree)

כִּֽי־תְמ֣וֹל אֲ֭נַחְנוּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע כִּ֤י צֵ֖ל יָמֵ֣ינוּ עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[are\].yesterday we and not we.know (dm) \[are\].a.shadow days our on earth

*JPS 1917:* For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow —

[Genesis 31:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.2/#tree)

וַיַּ֥רְא יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י לָבָ֑ן וְהִנֵּ֥ה אֵינֶ֛נּוּ עִמּ֖וֹ כִּתְמ֥וֹל שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw Jacob (et) the.face of.Laban and there! not he \[was\].with him as yesterday three.days.ago

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8543.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8543/): 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).