Hēméra — G2250

Definition

feminine noun

day, i.e. (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively, a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context)

1. of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with night
1. properly, ἡμέρας, by day, in the daytime
2. metaphorically, the 'day' is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness
2. of the civil day, or the space of twenty-four hours (thus including the night)
3. of the lust day of the present age , the day in which Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom, the following expressions are used
4. By a Hebraistic usage it is used of time in general (as the Latindies is sometimes)

Usually translated as

day, time, years, age, midday, judgment, while, alway, dayly, for ever

Origin

feminine (with G5610 implied) of a derivative of hēmai (to sit; akin to the base of G1476) meaning tame, i.e. gentle

• hṓra (G5610)
• hedraîos (G1476)

Occurrences

Hēméra occurs 385 times in 362 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (39), Mark (26), Luke (78), John (29), Acts (89), Romans (9), 1 Corinthians (7), 2 Corinthians (4), Galatians (2), Ephesians (3), Philippians (4), Colossians (2), 1 Thessalonians (6), 2 Thessalonians (3), 1 Timothy (1), 2 Timothy (5), Hebrews (18), James (2), 1 Peter (3), 2 Peter (9), 1 John (1), Jude (1), Revelation (21)

• Matthew 2:1 — Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days (ἡμέραις) of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
• Matthew 3:1 — In those days (ἡμέραις) came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
• Matthew 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days (ἡμέρας) and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
• Matthew 6:34 — Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day (ἡμέρᾳ) is the evil thereof.
• Matthew 7:22 — Many will say to me in that day (ἡμέρᾳ), Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
• Matthew 9:15 — And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days (ἡμέραι) will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
• Matthew 10:15 — Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day (ἡμέρᾳ) of judgment, than for that city.
• Matthew 11:12 — And from the days (ἡμερῶν) of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
• Matthew 11:22 — But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day (ἡμέρᾳ) of judgment, than for you.
• Matthew 11:24 — But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day (ἡμέρᾳ) of judgment, than for thee.
• Matthew 12:36 — But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day (ἡμέρᾳ) of judgment.
• Matthew 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days (ἡμέρας) and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Matthew 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days (ἡμέρας) and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Matthew 13:1 — The same day (ἡμέρᾳ) went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
• Matthew 15:32 — Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days (ἡμέραι), and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
• Matthew 16:21 — From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day (ἡμέρᾳ).
• Matthew 17:1 — And after six days (ἡμέρας) Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
• Matthew 17:23 — And they shall kill him, and the third day (ἡμέρᾳ) he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
• Matthew 20:2 — And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day (ἡμέραν), he sent them into his vineyard.
• Matthew 20:6 — And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day (ἡμέραν) idle?
• Matthew 20:12 — Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day (ἡμέρας).
• Matthew 20:19 — And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day (ἡμέρᾳ) he shall rise again.
• Matthew 22:23 — The same day (ἡμέρᾳ) came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
• Matthew 22:46 — And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day (ἡμέρας) forth ask him any more questions.
• Matthew 23:30 — And say, If we had been in the days (ἡμέραις) of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
• Matthew 24:19 — And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days (ἡμέραις)!
• Matthew 24:22 — And except those days (ἡμέραι) should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
• Matthew 24:22 — And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days (ἡμέραι) shall be shortened.
• Matthew 24:29 — Immediately after the tribulation of those days (ἡμερῶν) shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Matthew 24:36 — But of that day (ἡμέρας) and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
• Matthew 24:37 — But as the days (ἡμέραι) of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
• Matthew 24:38 — For as in the days (ἡμέραις) that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
• Matthew 24:38 — For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day (ἡμέρας) that Noe entered into the ark,
• Matthew 24:50 — The lord of that servant shall come in a day (ἡμέρᾳ) when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
• Matthew 25:13 — Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day (ἡμέραν) nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
• Matthew 26:2 — Ye know that after two days (ἡμέρας) is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
• Matthew 26:29 — But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day (ἡμέρας) when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.
• Matthew 26:55 — In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily (ἡμέραν) with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
• Matthew 26:61 — And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days (ἡμερῶν).
• Matthew 27:40 — And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days (ἡμέραις), save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Matthew 27:63 — Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days (ἡμέρας) I will rise again.
• Matthew 27:64 — Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day (ἡμέρας), lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
• Mark 1:9 — And it came to pass in those days (ἡμέραις), that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
• Mark 1:13 — And he was there in the wilderness forty days (ἡμέρας), tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
• Mark 2:1 — And again he entered into Capernaum after some days (ἡμερῶν); and it was noised that he was in the house.
• Mark 2:20 — But the days (ἡμέραι) will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
• Mark 2:20 — But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days (ἡμέραις).
• Mark 4:27 — And should sleep, and rise night and day (ἡμέραν), and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
• Mark 4:35 — And the same day (ἡμέρᾳ), when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
• Mark 5:5 — And always, night and day (ἡμέρας), he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.