Day
יוֹםStrong’s H3118yom
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yom is the Aramaic word usually translated “days”, “days of” and “day”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;”
Meaning
- Day
- Day always refers to a twenty-four hour period when the word is modified by a definite or cardinal number
How it's translated
- days 5
- days of 2
- day 2
- days the 2
- in day the 2
- by day 1
- and in days their 1
- and in days of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 11
- Ezra 4
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:44In contextAnd in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
- Daniel 4:34In contextAnd at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
- Daniel 5:11In contextThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
- Daniel 6:7In contextAll the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
- Daniel 6:10In contextNow when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
- Daniel 6:12In contextThen they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Aramaic dictionary
יוֹם yom · day
1) day 2) day always refers to a twenty-four hour period when the word is modified by a definite or cardinal number
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
- 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
- Light; sunshine.“Let us walk honestly as in the day” Romans 13:13
- Time specified; any period of time distinguished from other time; age; time with reference to the existence of a person or thing.
- The contest of a day; battle; or day of combat.
All definitions
- An appointed or fixed time.
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.