טרם

Hebrew

Etymology

Suggested by Sjörs to be cognate to Classical Arabic طَرْمَة (ṭarma), طِرْمَة (ṭirma), طُرْمَة (ṭurma, “upper lip; edge, protrusion”), retained in several dialects as diminutive طَرُّومَة (ṭarrūma), from a Central Semitic anatomic term *ṭVrm- f (“big lip”). Compare the development of سَوْفَ (sawfa, future tense marker) eventually from Proto-Semitic *śapat- (“lip; brink, margin”).

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -em

Adverb

טֶרֶם • (térem) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

before
not yet

Derived terms

בְּטֶרֶם עֵת (“early, before his time”)

References

H2962 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Sjörs, Ambjörn (2023 September 20) “On the Etymology of Biblical Hebrew טֶרֶם ṭɛrɛm ‘before, not yet’”, in Journal of Semitic Studies, volume 69, number 1, published 2024, →DOI, pages 9–14

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טרם