Definition

anterior

Etymology

from the prepositional prefix (to or for) and H6440 (פָּנִים);

Word family

• פָּנִים pânîym

How the KJV renders it

• before

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.