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Day

יוֹםStrong’s H3117

yom

Appears in 1,932 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yom is the Hebrew word usually translated “days”, “on the day” and “day”. It appears in 1,932 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.”
Daniel 1:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Day, time, yearday (as opposed to night) · day (24 hour period) · days, lifetime (pl.) · time, period (general) · year · temporal references
How it's translated
  • days 275
  • on the day 257
  • the day 256
  • this day 199
  • the days 136
  • days of 127
  • day 120
  • on day 83

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 146
  • Genesis 139
  • 1 Samuel 132
  • Jeremiah 121
  • Isaiah 110
  • Psalms 107

39 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

יוֹם yom · day

: day/when/time/period 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “day” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DAY, noun

  1. That part of the time of the earth's revolution on its axis, in which its surface is presented to the sun; the part of the twenty four hours when it is light; or the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun; called the artificial day
  2. Light; sunshine.“Let us walk honestly as in the day” Romans 13:13
  3. Time specified; any period of time distinguished from other time; age; time with reference to the existence of a person or thing.
  4. The contest of a day; battle; or day of combat.
All definitions
  1. An appointed or fixed time.
  2. Time of commemorating an event; anniversary; the same day of the month, in any future year.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.