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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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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H3138
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
H3335
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
H7223
But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
H7223
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
H3335
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
no direct Strong's tag
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
no direct Strong's tag
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
no direct Strong's tag
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
H7223
For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
H7223
At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
no direct Strong's tag
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
no direct Strong's tag
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
no direct Strong's tag
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
H7223
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
H7223
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.
H7223
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?
H7223
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
H7223
But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
H6931
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.
H6931
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
G4413
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
G4387
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
G4386
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
G4386
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
no direct Strong's tag
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.
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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