The word(s) "before" appears 360 time(s) in 348 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(71) And He it is Who sends forth the winds bearing good news before His mercy, until, when they bring up a laden cloud, We drive it to a dead land, then We send down water on it, then bring forth with it of fruits of all kinds; thus shall We bring forth the dead that you may be mindful.

(72) And (We sent) Lut when he said to his people: What! do you commit an indecency which any one in the world has not done before you?

(73) Firon said: Do you believe in Him before I have given you permission? Surely this is a plot which you have secretly devised in this city, that you may turn out of it its people, but you shall know:

(74) They said: We have been persecuted before you came to us and since you have come to us. He said: It may be that your Lord will destroy your enemy and make you rulers in the land, then He will see how you act.

(75) And Musa chose out of his people seventy men for Our appointment; so when the earthquake overtook them, he said: My Lord! if Thou hadst pleased, Thou hadst destroyed them before and myself (too); wilt Thou destroy us for what the fools among us have done? It is naught but Thy trial, Thou makest err with it whom Thou pleasest and guidest whom Thou pleasest: Thou art our Guardian, therefore forgive us and have mercy on us, and Thou art the best of the forgivers.

(76) And when a party of them said: Why do you admonish a with a severe chastisement? They said: To be free from blame before your Lord, and that haply they may guard (against evil).

(77) Or you should say: Only our fathers associated others (with Allah) before, and we were an offspring after them: Wilt Thou then destroy us for what the vain doers did?

(78) Surely those who are with your Lord are not too proud to serve Him, and they declare His glory and prostrate in humility before Him.

(79) And their prayer before the House is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands; taste then the chastisement, for you disbelieved.

(80) This is for what your own hands have sent on before, and because Allah is not in the least unjust to the servants;