Yôwm — H3117

Definition

masculine noun

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)

1. day, time, year
1. day (as opposed to night)
2. day (24 hour period)
1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
2. as a division of time
1. a working day, a day's journey
3. days, lifetime (pl.)
4. time, period (general)
5. year
6. temporal references
1. today
2. yesterday
3. tomorrow

Usually translated as

day, days, time, daily, year, when, continually, while, yearly, always, age, as at other times, life, required, ever, full, old, season, space, elder, end, perpetually, presently, since, whole, continuance, birthday, evening, everlasting, evermore, now, outlived, remaineth, in trouble, weather, younger, chronicals, as, long as, then

Origin

from an unused root meaning to be hot

Greek equivalents

• archḗ (G746)
• bíos (G979)
• geneá (G1074)
• hékastos (G1538)
• étos (G2094)
• euphrosýnē (G2167)
• zōḗ (G2222)
• hēméra (G2250)
• kathḗkō (G2520)
• kairós (G2540)
• nŷn (G3568)
• hodós (G3598)
• sḗmeron (G4594)
• chrónos (G5550)

Occurrences

Yôwm occurs 2,237 times in 1,883 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (134), Exodus (80), Leviticus (85), Numbers (88), Deuteronomy (142), Joshua (61), Judges (62), Ruth (6), 1 Samuel (120), 2 Samuel (58), 1 Kings (89), 2 Kings (69), 1 Chronicles (34), 2 Chronicles (55), Ezra (16), Nehemiah (43), Esther (39), Job (53), Psalms (103), Proverbs (29), Ecclesiastes (22), Song of Songs (4), Isaiah (110), Jeremiah (121), Lamentations (17), Ezekiel (83), Daniel (20), Hosea (23), Joel (10), Amos (17), Obadiah (6), Jonah (3), Micah (13), Nahum (4), Habakkuk (2), Zephaniah (14), Haggai (6), Zechariah (35), Malachi (7)

• Genesis 1:5 — And God called the light Day (י֔וֹם), and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
• Genesis 1:5 — And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day (י֥וֹם).
• Genesis 1:8 — And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day (י֥וֹם).
• Genesis 1:13 — And the evening and the morning were the third day (י֥וֹם).
• Genesis 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day (הַיּ֖וֹם) from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
• Genesis 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days (וּלְיָמִ֖ים), and years:
• Genesis 1:16 — And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day (הַיּ֔וֹם), and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
• Genesis 1:18 — And to rule over the day (בַּיּ֣וֹם) and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
• Genesis 1:19 — And the evening and the morning were the fourth day (י֥וֹם).
• Genesis 1:23 — And the evening and the morning were the fifth day (י֥וֹם).
• Genesis 1:31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day (י֥וֹם).
• Genesis 2:2 — And on the seventh day (בַּיּ֣וֹם) God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
• Genesis 2:2 — And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day (בַּיּ֣וֹם) from all his work which he had made.
• Genesis 2:3 — And God blessed the seventh day (י֣וֹם), and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
• Genesis 2:4 — These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day (בְּי֗וֹם) that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
• Genesis 2:17 — But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day (בְּי֛וֹם) that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
• Genesis 3:5 — For God doth know that in the day (בְּיוֹם֙) ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
• Genesis 3:8 — And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day (הַיּ֑וֹם): and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
• Genesis 3:14 — And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days (יְמֵ֥י) of thy life:
• Genesis 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days (יְמֵ֥י) of thy life;
• Genesis 4:3 — And in process of time (יָמִ֑ים) it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
• Genesis 4:14 — Behold, thou hast driven me out this day (הַיּ֗וֹם) from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
• Genesis 5:1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day (בְּי֗וֹם) that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
• Genesis 5:2 — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day (בְּי֖וֹם) when they were created.
• Genesis 5:4 — And the days (יְמֵי) of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
• Genesis 5:5 — And all the days (יְמֵ֤י) that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:8 — And all the days (יְמֵי) of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:11 — And all the days (יְמֵ֣י) of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:14 — And all the days (יְמֵ֣י) of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:17 — And all the days (יְמֵ֣י) of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:20 — And all the days (יְמֵי) of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:23 — And all the days (יְמֵ֣י) of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
• Genesis 5:27 — And all the days (יְמֵ֣י) of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
• Genesis 5:31 — And all the days (יְמֵי) of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
• Genesis 6:3 — And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days (יָמָ֔יו) shall be an hundred and twenty years.
• Genesis 6:4 — There were giants in the earth in those days (בַּיָּמִ֣ים); and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
• Genesis 6:5 — And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (הַיּֽוֹם).
• Genesis 7:4 — For yet seven days (לְיָמִ֨ים), and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
• Genesis 7:4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days (י֔וֹם) and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
• Genesis 7:10 — And it came to pass after seven days (הַיָּמִ֑ים), that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day (י֖וֹם) of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day (בַּיּ֣וֹם) were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
• Genesis 7:12 — And the rain was upon the earth forty days (י֔וֹם) and forty nights.
• Genesis 7:13 — In the selfsame day (הַיּ֤וֹם) entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
• Genesis 7:17 — And the flood was forty days (י֖וֹם) upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
• Genesis 7:24 — And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days (יֽוֹם).
• Genesis 8:3 — And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days (יֽוֹם) the waters were abated.
• Genesis 8:4 — And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day (י֖וֹם) of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
• Genesis 8:6 — And it came to pass at the end of forty days (י֑וֹם), that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
• Genesis 8:10 — And he stayed yet other seven days (יָמִ֖ים); and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;