Yesterday

1. Before, before that time, beforetime, heretofore, of late, of old, these days, time(s) past, yesterday, day before yesterday, recently, formerlyyesterday · as formerly, so more recently · from yesterday, already

• from yesterday 8
• yesterday 8
• as yesterday 7

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Exodus 6
• Deuteronomy 3
• Joshua 3
• Genesis 2
• 1 Samuel 2
• 2 Samuel 2

10 books in all.

• Previously (etmol)
• Yesterday (chthes)
• Last night (emesh)

• Genesis 31:5And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
• Exodus 4:10And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
• Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
• Exodus 5:8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
• Exodus 5:14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
• Exodus 21:29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “yesterday” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.