Genesis 40:13
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
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Former
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Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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10 occurrences in 10 verses.
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This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Genesis
11 verses
Numbers
11 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Ruth
11 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
2 Kings
33 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Ecclesiastes
22 verses
Isaiah
1010 verses
Jeremiah
55 verses
Ezekiel
31 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
21 verses
Haggai
11 verses
Zechariah
55 verses
Malachi
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
רִאשׁוֹן
riʼshôwn · ree-shone'
26 times translated as this KJV form182 total Strong's occurrences
first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
Strong's KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 40:13Strong's last: Zechariah 8:11
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próteron · prot'-er-on
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
previously
Strong's KJV usage: :--before, (at the) first, former.
Strong's first: Hebrews 10:32Strong's last: 1 Peter 1:14
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yâtsar · yaw-tsar'
2 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. form a resolution)
Strong's KJV usage: × earthen, fashion, form, frame, make(-r), potter, purpose.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 10:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:19
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qadmôwnîy · kad-mo-nee'
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
(of time) anterior or (of place) oriental
Strong's KJV usage: ancient, they that went before, east, (thing of) old.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zechariah 14:8Strong's last: Malachi 3:4
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próteros · prot'-er-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
prior or previous
Strong's KJV usage: :--former.
Strong's first: Ephesians 4:22Strong's last: Ephesians 4:22
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prōtos · pro'-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences
foremost (in time, place, order or importance)
Strong's KJV usage: :--before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 1:1Strong's last: Acts 1:1
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yôwreh · yo-reh'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
sprinkling; hence, a sprinkling (or autumnal showers)
Strong's KJV usage: first rain, former (rain).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 5:24Strong's last: Jeremiah 5:24
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no direct Strong's tag
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
no direct Strong's tag
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
no direct Strong's tag
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
no direct Strong's tag
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
no direct Strong's tag
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
no direct Strong's tag
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
H7223
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
H7223
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
H7223
That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
H7223
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
English meaning and historical usage.
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former
FORM'ER, noun He that forms; a maker; an author.
FOR'MER, adjective comparative deg.
1. Before in time; preceding another or something else in order of time; opposed to latter.
Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled. Deuteronomy 24:4.
2. Past, and frequently ancient, long past.
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age. Job 8:8.
3. Near the beginning; preceding; as the former part of a discourse or argument.
4. Mentioned before another.
A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of want of judgment; but he cannot be the latter without both that and an ill temper.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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