shil.shom marks an earlier past point, commonly paired with “yesterday” to describe what was true before the present situation.

The term marks a point in the recent past, most often in clauses that pair it with “yesterday” to compare an earlier condition, action, or attitude with the present. The same temporal reference also appears where the APB uses broader expressions such as “previously,” “before,” or “as before.”

1. An earlier past point in comparison with the present · dominant

   The term occurs in temporal comparisons, regularly alongside “yesterday.” In Exodus 21:29 the APB renders the condition of a goring ox as existing “from yesterday and the day before,” while Deuteronomy 19:4 describes a killer who had not hated his neighbor “from yesterday or three days ago.” Genesis 31:2 and 2 Samuel 3:17 use the same past benchmark when contrasting Laban’s changed attitude and Israel’s earlier search for David as king.

   Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:36Deuteronomy 19:4Genesis 31:22 Samuel 3:171 Samuel 10:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the temporal expression with “yesterday and the day before” or “yesterday or three days ago.” In other clauses it uses “previously,” “before,” or “as before”; these are renderings of whole translated clauses rather than word-by-word alignments.