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The term "previously" is not directly found in the text of the Bible; however, the concept of past events and their significance is a recurring theme throughout the Scriptures. The Bible often reflects on past events to teach, remind, and guide believers in their faith journey.

Old Testament Context

In the Old Testament, the history of Israel is frequently recounted to remind the people of God's faithfulness and their covenant relationship with Him. For instance, the book of Deuteronomy serves as a reminder of the laws and events that occurred previously, as Moses reiterates the commandments and recounts the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 4:9 states, "Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren."

The Psalms also reflect on past events to encourage trust in God. Psalm 77:11 says, "I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old." This reflection on God's previous acts serves to strengthen faith and provide hope for the future.

New Testament Context

In the New Testament, the concept of previously is often related to the fulfillment of prophecies and the life of Jesus Christ. The Gospels frequently reference Old Testament prophecies that were fulfilled in the life and ministry of Jesus, emphasizing the continuity and faithfulness of God's plan. Matthew 1:22-23 notes, "All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel' (which means, 'God with us')."

The Apostle Paul, in his letters, often refers to the believers' previous state before knowing Christ and the transformation that follows. In Ephesians 2:1-3 , Paul writes, "As for you, you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath."

Theological Implications

Reflecting on what has occurred previously is vital for understanding God's character and His dealings with humanity. The Bible encourages believers to remember past events as a means of learning and growing in faith. The historical accounts, prophecies, and teachings serve as a foundation for understanding God's redemptive plan and His ongoing work in the world.

The concept of previously also underscores the importance of testimony and witness. Believers are called to share their past experiences of God's grace and deliverance as a testament to His power and love. This sharing of past experiences is a crucial aspect of evangelism and discipleship, as it provides evidence of God's work in individual lives and the broader community of faith.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(adv.) Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

Greek

4258. proamartano -- to sin before
... to sin before. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: proamartano Phonetic Spelling:
(pro-am-ar-tan'-o) Short Definition: I sin previously Definition: I sin ...
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4266. proginomai -- to happen before
... to happen before. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: proginomai Phonetic Spelling:
(prog-in'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I happen previously Definition: I ...
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4270. prographo -- to write before
... to write before. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: prographo Phonetic Spelling:
(prog-raf'-o) Short Definition: I write previously Definition: (a) I write ...
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4310. propascho -- suffer before.
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: propascho Phonetic Spelling: (prop-as'-kho)
Short Definition: I suffer previously Definition: I suffer previously. ...
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4308. proorao -- to see before
... Verb Transliteration: proorao Phonetic Spelling: (pro-or-ah'-o) Short Definition:
I foresee Definition: I see beforehand, foresee, see previously, am mindful of ...
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4278. proenarchomai -- to begin before
... Word Origin from pro and enarchomai Definition to begin before NASB Word Usage first
to begin (1), previously made (1), previously made a beginning (1). begin. ...
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4391. prouparcho -- to exist beforehand
... Transliteration: prouparcho Phonetic Spelling: (pro-oop-ar'-kho) Short Definition:
I have been already Definition: I have been already, have been previously. ...
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4300. prokuroo -- to establish beforehand
... before. Word Origin from pro and kuroo Definition to establish beforehand
NASB Word Usage previously ratified (1). confirm before. ...
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511. anoteros -- higher
... Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anoteros Phonetic Spelling: (an-o'-ter-os) Short
Definition: higher, to a more honorable place, previously, above Definition ...
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4277 -- forewarn, say before
forewarn, say before. Part of Speech: Verb Phonetic Spelling: (pro-ep'-o) Short
Definition: I say previously, predict Definition: I say previously, predict ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8543. temol -- yesterday, recently, formerly
... 8542, 8543. temol or temol. 8544 . yesterday, recently, formerly. Transliteration:
temol or temol Phonetic Spelling: (tem-ole') Short Definition: previously ...
/hebrew/8543.htm - 6k

865a. ethmol -- yesterday, recently, formerly
... 865, 865a. ethmol or ittemol or ethmul. 865b . yesterday, recently, formerly.
Transliteration: ethmol or ittemol or ethmul Short Definition: previously. ...
/hebrew/865a.htm - 5k

8032a. shilshom -- three days ago, day before, yesterday
... 8032, 8032a. shilshom or shilshom. 8032b . three days ago, day before, yesterday.
Transliteration: shilshom or shilshom Short Definition: previously. ...
/hebrew/8032a.htm - 5k

7223. rishon -- former, first, chief
... 1), former (25), former ones (4), former things (6), formerly (6), front (1), old
(1), older (1), one in front (1), past (1), previous (1), previously (1). ...
/hebrew/7223.htm - 6k

8462. techillah -- a beginning
... Word Origin from chalal Definition a beginning NASB Word Usage before (1), began
(1), beginning (11), first (5), first time (2), previously (2). Tachmonite. ...
/hebrew/8462.htm - 6k

4480. min -- from
... 4), openly* (1), opposite* (6), origin* (1), outermost* (1), outside* (52), over
(4), over* (4), part (1), part* (1), presence* (1), previously* (1), promised ...
/hebrew/4480.htm - 8k

6928. qadmah -- former time
... ago. Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to qadmah Definition former time
NASB Word Usage ago (1), previously (1). aforetime, ago. ...
/hebrew/6928.htm - 6k

1571. gam -- also, moreover, yea
... 1), neither* (5), neither (1), nevertheless (1), nor (4), nor yet (1), nor* (4),
now (3), now* (2), only (1), or (4), part also (1), previously* (1), so (1 ...
/hebrew/1571.htm - 6k

6440. panim -- face, faces
... 2), preceded (2), presence (131), presence and before (1), presence of the before
(1), presence on the before (1), presented* (2), previously (1), prior (1 ...
/hebrew/6440.htm - 8k

Library

In a Passage Previously Quoted Celsus Asks us Why we do not ...
... Chapter II. In a passage previously quoted Celsus asks us why we do not
worship demons? In a passage previously quoted Celsus ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen against celsus/chapter ii in a passage.htm

That it was Previously Foretold that they Would Neither Know the ...
... First Book. 3. That it was previously foretold that they would neither
know the Lord, nor understand, nor receive Him. In Isaiah ...
/.../three books of testimonies against the jews/3 that it was previously.htm

Refutation of the Previously Mentioned Errors.
... Chapter V."Refutation of the previously mentioned errors. And that He
Himself is not God over all, and the Father, but His Son ...
/.../chapter v refutation of the previously.htm

Whether the Debt of Punishment that Arises through Ingratitude in ...
... FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the debt of punishment that arises through ingratitude in
respect of a subsequent sin is as great as that of the sins previously pardoned ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the debt of punishment 4.htm

Whether it is Essential to this Sacrament that the Chrism which is ...
... CONFIRMATION (Q ) Whether it is essential to this sacrament that the chrism
which is its matter be previously consecrated by a bishop? ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is essential to.htm

He Next Proceeds to Say, that "A Common Nature Pervades all the ...
... Chapter LX. He next proceeds to say, that "a common nature pervades all
the previously mentioned bodies? He next proceeds to say ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lx he next proceeds.htm

A Corollary of the General Synchronism of all the circumstances ...
... PART I. SYNCHRONISM V. A Corollary of the General Synchronism of all the
circumstances previously enumerated. A Corollary of the ...
/.../mede/a key to the apocalypse/synchronism v a corollary of.htm

Now, as to the Expression which He Uses, "Some Persons Say," I ...
... Now, as to the expression which he uses, "Some persons say," I think it has been
made clear by what I have previously said, that, when he says "some persons say ...
/.../38 now as to the.htm

Whether it is Praiseworthy to Enter Religion Without Taking ...
... OF THE ENTRANCE INTO RELIGIOUS LIFE (TEN ARTICLES) Whether it is praiseworthy to
enter religion without taking counsel of many, and previously deliberating for ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is praiseworthy to.htm

Why Christ's Coming Should be Previously Announced.
... Book III. Wherein Christ is shown to be the Son of God, Who created the world
Chapter II."Why Christ's Coming Should Be Previously Announced. ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter ii why christs coming should.htm

Thesaurus

Previously (44 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously
formed. Multi-Version Concordance Previously (44 Occurrences). ...
/p/previously.htm - 20k

Pastoral
... When Timothy and Titus received these epistles they were not acting, as they had
previously done, as missionaries or itinerant evangelists, but had been left ...
/p/pastoral.htm - 39k

Revelation (52 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary An uncovering, a bringing to light of that which
had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen. ...
/r/revelation.htm - 89k

Before (18954 Occurrences)
... 2. (prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time
when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that. ...
/b/before.htm - 9k

Gospels
... credibility and historicity, were subjected to the most searching and unsparing
criticism which, though intimations of it were previously not wanting, may be ...
/g/gospels.htm - 73k

Elisha (70 Occurrences)
... It seems almost certain that they lived among the schools of the prophets, and
not in the mountains and hills as Elijah had previously done. ...
/e/elisha.htm - 61k

Exploration
... dangerous journey through the Desert of the Tih in order to locate so far as possible
the route of the Exodus; Clermont-Ganneau, who had previously made the ...
/e/exploration.htm - 38k

Zimri (16 Occurrences)
... two paragraphs is difficult; Moabite women are mentioned in the first, a Midianitess
in the second; the plague of Numbers 25:8 is not previously referred to ...
/z/zimri.htm - 18k

Zoar (12 Occurrences)
... zo'-ar (tso`ar; the Septuagint usually Segor, Zogora): The name of the city to which
Lot escaped from Sodom (Genesis 19:20-23, 30), previously mentioned in ...
/z/zoar.htm - 14k

Zarakes
... According to 1 Esdras 1:38, Joakim apparently apprehended his brother, Zarakes,
and brought him up out of Egypt, whither he must have been previously taken by ...
/z/zarakes.htm - 7k

Resources

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Concordance

Previously (44 Occurrences)

John 9:8
The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"
(See NAS)

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
(See NAS)

Acts 8:9
But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
(See RSV)

Acts 10:41
not to all the people, but to witnesses--men previously chosen by God--namely, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
(WEY)

Acts 14:26
Thence they sailed to Antioch, where they had previously been commended to the grace of God in connexion with the work which they had now completed.
(WEY)

Acts 21:29
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
(YLT NAS RSV)

Romans 3:9
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
(WEB)

Romans 3:25
He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--
(WEY NAS)

Romans 9:29
As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."
(See NIV)

2 Corinthians 1:15
And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;
(DBY)

2 Corinthians 8:6
This led us to urge Titus that, as he had previously been the one who commenced the work, so he should now go and complete among you this act of beneficence also.
(WEY NAS)

2 Corinthians 9:5
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
(See NAS)

2 Corinthians 13:2
I have said before, and I say 'it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
(See NAS)

Galatians 3:17
Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
(See NAS)

1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we declare to you on the Lord's own authority--that we who are alive and continue on earth until the Coming of the Lord, shall certainly not forestall those who shall have previously passed away.
(WEY)

1 Timothy 1:13
though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;
(WEY)

1 Timothy 1:18
This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
(See NAS)

Hebrews 10:8
Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),
(WEB)

Revelation 4:1
After all this I looked and saw a door in Heaven standing open, and the voice that I had previously heard, which resembled the blast of a trumpet, again spoke to me and said, "Come up here, and I will show you things which are to happen in the future."
(WEY)

Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
(See NAS)

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as previously.
(DBY)

Genesis 31:5
and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as previously; but the God of my father has been with me.
(DBY)

Exodus 5:7
"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
(See NAS)

Exodus 5:8
The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying,'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
(See NAS)

Exodus 5:14
The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
(See NAS)

Exodus 21:29
But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
(See NAS)

Exodus 21:36
Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
(See NAS)

Deuteronomy 4:42
that the manslayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not previously, that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live:
(DBY)

Deuteronomy 19:4
And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee thither that he may live: he that smiteth his neighbour unwittingly, whom he hated not previously;
(DBY NAS)

Deuteronomy 19:6
lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, since he hated him not previously.
(DBY NAS)

Joshua 4:18
And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, when the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on to the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and they flowed as previously, over all its banks.
(DBY)

Joshua 20:5
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; for he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not previously.
(DBY)

Ruth 2:11
Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
(See NAS)

1 Samuel 10:11
It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, "What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?"
(See NAS)

1 Samuel 14:21
Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
(See NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 19:7
Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan declared to him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as previously.
(DBY)

2 Samuel 5:2
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you,'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"
(See NAS)

1 Chronicles 6:65
They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 9:20
Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.
(See NAS)

Nehemiah 13:5
had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.
(See RSV)

Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
(See NAS RSV)

Daniel 8:1
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
(See NAS)

Daniel 9:21
yea, while I am speaking in prayer, then that one Gabriel, whom I had seen in vision at the commencement, being caused to fly swiftly, is coming unto me at the time of the evening present.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

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