טרם
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Hebrew[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- Rhymes: -em
Adverb[edit]
טֶרֶם • (térem) [pattern: קֶטֶל]
Derived terms[edit]
- בְּטֶרֶם עֵת (“early, before his time”)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- 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, , pages 9–14