day · enough

What it means

day (דַּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “enough”.

What is sufficient; with prepositions, "as often as", "according to".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The amount that is enough for something, with nothing lacking.
2. Together with other words: whenever, as often as, as much as suffices.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• enough ×13
• as often as ×6
• whenever ×3
• year ×3
• fire ×2
• nothing ×2
• Sabbath ×1
• according to ×1
• every ×1
• for ×1
• others ×6

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Job×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×6
• Obadiah×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×2
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 36:5

  and they said to Moses, saying, “The people are bringing much more than enough for the service for the work that YHWH commanded to do it.”

• Exodus 36:7

  For the material was enough for all the work to do it, and more.

• Leviticus 5:7

  And if his means do not reach enough for a lamb, he shall bring as his guilt offering for what he has sinned two turtledoves or two young pigeons to YHWH, one as a sin offering and one as a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 12:8

  And if her means do not suffice for a lamb, she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering; and the priest shall make expiation for her, and she will be clean.”

• Leviticus 25:26

  And if a man has no redeemer, but his hand reaches and finds enough for his redemption,

• Leviticus 25:28

  But if his hand does not find enough to give back to him, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the one who bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go free, and he shall return to his possession.

• Deuteronomy 15:8

  But you shall freely open your hand to him and freely lend him enough for his need, whatever he lacks.

• Deuteronomy 25:2

  Then it shall be, if the wicked one deserves to be struck, that the judge shall make him lie down and have him struck before him according to his wickedness, by number.

• Judges 6:5

  For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, and they would come like locusts in multitude; both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  And so he would do year by year; as often as she went up to the house of YHWH, so she would provoke her, and she would weep and not eat.

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He would go year by year and make the round of Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and judge Israel in all these places.

• 1 Samuel 18:30

  The commanders of the Philistines went out; and it would be, as often as they went out, that David acted more wisely than all the servants of Saul, and his name was highly esteemed.

• 1 Kings 14:28

  And it happened, as often as the king went into the house of YHWH, that the runners carried them, and brought them back to the guardroom of the runners.

• 2 Kings 4:8

  And it happened one day that Elisha passed over to Shunem, and there was a prominent woman, and she urged him to eat bread. So it happened that whenever he passed by, he would turn aside there to eat bread.

• 2 Chronicles 12:11

  And it happened, as often as the king went into the house of YHWH, the runners came and carried them, and brought them back to the guardroom of the runners.

• 2 Chronicles 24:5

  He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel silver to repair the house of your Elohim year by year; and you, hurry in the matter.” But the Levites did not hurry.

• 2 Chronicles 30:3

  for they had not been able to celebrate it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  and said to them, “We have bought our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations, according to what was in us; and will you also sell your brothers, so that they may be sold to us?” And they were silent and did not find a word.

• Esther 1:18

  And this day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard the matter of the queen will say it to all the king’s officials; and there will be plenty of contempt and anger.

• Job 39:25

  At every horn he says, ‘Aha!’ and from afar he smells the war, the thunder of the commanders and the acclamation.

• Proverbs 25:16

  Have you found honey? Eat what is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.

• Proverbs 27:27

  and enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household, and life for your maidservants.

• Isaiah 28:19

  As often as it passes through, it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.”

• Isaiah 40:16

  And Lebanon is not enough to burn, and its animals are not enough for a burnt offering.

• Isaiah 66:23

  And it will be that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to bow down before me, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 20:8

  For whenever I speak, I cry out; “Violence and destruction!” I proclaim; for the word of YHWH has become for me a reproach and a derision all day long.

• Jeremiah 31:20

  Is Ephraim a dear son to me, or a child of delight? For as often as I speak of him, I still remember him; therefore my inward parts are stirred for him; I will surely have compassion on him, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 48:27

  And was not Israel the laughingstock for you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you shake your head?

• Jeremiah 49:9

  If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, they would destroy only what was enough for them.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Obadiah 1:5

  If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night (how you have been destroyed!), would they not steal only what was enough for them? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

• Nahum 2:12

  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

• Habakkuk 2:13

  Is it not, look, from YHWH Tsevaot that peoples labor for the fire, and nations grow weary for nothing?

• Zechariah 14:16

  And it will happen that everyone who is left from all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to bow down before the King, YHWH Tsevaot, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

• Malachi 3:10

  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and test me, please, in this, says YHWH Tsevaot, if I will not open for you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you blessing until there is no more need.

And 4 more times.