יוֹם
yom · day
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3117 · appears 2303 times in the Bible
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yom (יוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “day”.
The hours of light, or a whole day from one evening to the next. Also an indefinite time or age ("in the day that...", "in those days").
How to say it
yom
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
- The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
- This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
- Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
- "The day of YHWH", when he comes to judge.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Day. BDB: the hours of light, or the whole day, from sunrise to sunset or from one sunset to the next; figuratively, a time defined by what is said of it.
- A day of light or a whole day Genesis 1:5Genesis 1:14
- “In the day that…”: the moment when something happens Genesis 2:4Genesis 2:17
- “Today” (literally “the day”) Deuteronomy 30:15
- In the plural, someone's lifetime or a period Genesis 5:5
- “The day of YHWH” Amos 5:18
Historical and cultural background
In Genesis 1 each day closes with “there was evening and there was morning” (Genesis 1:5).
How we translate it
“Day” 1213 times, “days” 806, “today” 193 (הַיּוֹם, “the day”), and “chronicles” 38 in the expression “the book of the chronicles”, which in Hebrew is “words of the days” (1 Kings 14:19).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- day ×1213
- days ×806
- today ×193
- chronicles ×38
- year ×16
- time ×10
- full ×7
- daily ×3
- yearly ×3
- come ×2
- others ×12
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×152
- Exodus×115
- Leviticus×113
- Numbers×121
- Deuteronomy×167
- Joshua×78
- Judges×75
- Ruth×8
- 1 Samuel×150
- 2 Samuel×75
- 1 Kings×100
- 2 Kings×79
- 1 Chronicles×41
- 2 Chronicles×75
- Ezra×21
- Nehemiah×60
- Esther×53
- Job×59
- Psalms×115
- Proverbs×32
- Ecclesiastes×26
- Song of Songs×5
- Isaiah×120
- Jeremiah×137
- Lamentations×19
- Ezekiel×108
- Daniel×23
- Hosea×28
- Joel×13
- Amos×22
- Obadiah×12
- Jonah×4
- Micah×14
- Nahum×4
- Habakkuk×2
- Zephaniah×21
- Haggai×8
- Zechariah×40
- Malachi×8
- Genesis 1:5
And Elohim called the light “Day,” and the darkness he called “Night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
- Genesis 1:8
And Elohim called the vault “Heavens.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
- Genesis 1:14
And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:16
And Elohim made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.
- Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
- Genesis 1:23
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
- Genesis 1:31
And Elohim saw everything that he had made, and look, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day Elohim finished his work that he had done, and on the seventh day he ceased from all his work that he had done.
- Genesis 2:3
And Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he ceased from all his work that Elohim had created to make.
- Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHWH Elohim made earth and heavens.
- Genesis 2:17
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from it, for in the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”
- Genesis 3:5
for Elohim knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”
- Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of YHWH Elohim walking about in the garden in the wind of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of YHWH Elohim among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:14
And YHWH Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you from among all the livestock and from among every animal of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; with toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 4:3
And it happened at the end of some days that Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to YHWH.
- Genesis 4:14
Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your presence I will be hidden; and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”
- Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created the human being, in the likeness of Elohim he made him.
- Genesis 5:2
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and called their name “Human Being” in the day they were created.
- Genesis 5:4
And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:5
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
- Genesis 5:8
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died.
- Genesis 5:11
And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years and he died.
- Genesis 5:14
And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years and he died.
- Genesis 5:17
And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years and he died.
- Genesis 5:20
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years and he died.
- Genesis 5:23
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
- Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and he died.
- Genesis 5:31
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years and he died.
- Genesis 6:3
And YHWH said, “My spirit will not remain in the human being forever, for he also is flesh; and his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
- Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim went in to the daughters of human beings and they bore children to them; they were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:5
And YHWH saw that the wickedness of the human being was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day.
- Genesis 7:4
For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”
- Genesis 7:10
And it happened after the seven days that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Genesis 7:12
And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah went into the ark, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them,
- Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.
And 2263 more times.