The word(s) "before" appears 299 time(s) in 289 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(231) Thus Allah the Mighty, the Knower inspireth thee (Muhammad) as (He inspired) those before thee.

(232) Answer the call of your Lord before there cometh unto you from Allah a Day which there is no averting. Ye have no refuge on that Day, nor have a ye any (power of) refusal.

(233) But if they are averse, We have not sent thee as a warder over them. Thine is only to convey (the message). And lo! when We cause man to taste of mercy from Us he exulteth therefor. And if some evil striketh them because of that which their own hands have sent before, then lo! man is an ingrate.

(234) Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old hath gone (before them).

(235) Or have We given them any scripture before (this Qur'an) so that they are holding fast thereto?

(236) And even so We sent not a warner before thee (Muhammad) into any township but its luxurious ones said: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints.

(237) And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped beside the Beneficent?

(238) And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger,

(239) Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.

(240) Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Have ye thought on all that ye invoke beside Allah? Show me what they have created of the earth. Or have they any portion in the heavens? Bring me a scripture before this (Scripture), or some vestige of knowledge (in support of what ye say), if ye are truthful.