8 occurrences in 12 translations

'Former' in the Bible

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

And look, I will shake my fist over them, and they will become plunder for their former slaves. And you will know that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies sent me."'"

Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], O prisoners who have the hope;Even today I am declaring that I will restore double [your former prosperity] to you [as firstborn among nations].

And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

All the land will be transformed into a desert plateau from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But it will rise up high and it will stay in its place from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of [the] former gate, up to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראשׁן ראשׁון 
Ri'shown 
Usage: 182

אמשׁ 
'emesh 
Usage: 5

יורה 
Yowreh 
Usage: 3

יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

מורה 
Mowreh 
Usage: 3

קדמה 
Qadmah 
Usage: 6

קדמני קדמוני 
Qadmowniy 
Usage: 10

πρότερον 
Proteron 
before Trans , first , former , before , at the first
Usage: 9

πρότερος 
Proteros 
Usage: 1

πρῶτος 
Protos 
Usage: 67

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