yomam · by day

What it means

yomam (יוֹמָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “by day”.

In the daytime.

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. During the hours of light, as against the night.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Job×2
• Psalms×10
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×7
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4

• Exodus 13:21

  YHWH went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give light to them, so that they could travel by day and by night.

• Exodus 13:22

  The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.

• Exodus 40:38

  For the cloud of YHWH was on the dwelling by day, and fire was in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel, in all their journeys.

• Leviticus 8:35

  At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of YHWH, so that you do not die; for so I have been commanded.”

• Numbers 9:21

  And sometimes the cloud was there from evening until morning; and when the cloud was lifted in the morning, they would set out; or a day and a night, and when the cloud was lifted, they would set out.

• Numbers 10:34

  And the cloud of YHWH was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

• Numbers 14:14

  and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, YHWH, are in the midst of this people, that you, YHWH, are seen eye to eye, and your cloud stands over them, and in a pillar of cloud you go before them by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

• Deuteronomy 1:33

  who went before you on the way to explore for you a place to camp, in fire by night, to show you the way in which you should go, and in the cloud by day.

• Deuteronomy 28:66

  And your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be in dread night and day, and you will not be sure of your life.

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the instruction shall not depart from your mouth, and you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosper, and then you will act wisely.

• Judges 6:27

  Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as YHWH had told him. But because he was afraid of the house of his father and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

• 1 Samuel 25:16

  They were a wall around us both by night and by day, all the days we were with them tending the flock.

• 2 Samuel 21:10

  Rizpah daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the heavens to settle on them by day, or the animals of the field by night.

• 1 Kings 8:59

  And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before YHWH, be near to YHWH our Elohim day and night, that he may do justice for his servant and justice for his people Israel, the matter of each day in its day,

• 1 Chronicles 9:33

  And these were the singers, heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, in the chambers, free from other service, for day and night it was on them to be in the work.

• 2 Chronicles 6:20

  that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which you said that you would put your name there, to listen to the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

• Nehemiah 1:6

  let your ear, I beg you, be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant, which I am praying before you today, day and night, for the sons of Israel your servants, and confessing the sins of the sons of Israel, which we have sinned against you; and I and my father’s house have sinned.

• Nehemiah 4:9

  But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a guard against them day and night because of them.

• Nehemiah 9:12

  And with a pillar of cloud you led them by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should go.

• Nehemiah 9:19

  you, in your many mercies, did not abandon them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud did not depart from over them by day, to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should go.

• Job 5:14

  By day they meet darkness, and as at night they grope at noon.

• Job 24:16

  They dig through houses in the dark; by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

• Psalms 1:2

  but in the instruction of YHWH is his delight, and on his instruction he meditates by day and night.

• Psalms 13:2

  How long will I put counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart by day? How long will my enemy rise up over me?

• Psalms 22:2

  My Elohim, I call by day, and you do not answer; and by night, and there is no silence for me.

• Psalms 32:4

  For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my vigor was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been bread for me day and night, while they say to me all the day, “Where is your Elohim?”

• Psalms 42:8

  By day YHWH will command his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me, a prayer to the El of my life.

• Psalms 55:10

  Day and night they go around it on its walls, and wickedness and suffering are within it.

• Psalms 78:14

  And he led them with the cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

• Psalms 91:5

  You will not fear the dread of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

• Psalms 121:6

  By day the sun will not strike you, nor the moon by night.

• Isaiah 4:5

  And YHWH will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her convocations a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

• Isaiah 4:6

  And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a hiding place from the downpour and from the rain.

• Isaiah 21:8

  And a lion cried out, “On the watchtower, Adonai, I stand continually by day, and at my post I am stationed every night.

• Isaiah 34:10

  Night and day it will not be quenched; forever its smoke will rise; from generation to generation it will lie waste; for ever and ever no one will pass through it.

• Isaiah 60:11

  And your gates will be open continually; day and night they will not be shut, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings being led.

• Isaiah 60:19

  The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give you light; but YHWH will be your eternal light, and your Elohim will be your beauty.

• Jeremiah 9:1

  Oh that my head were water and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

• Jeremiah 14:17

  And you will say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for with a great breaking has been broken the virgin daughter of my people, a wound incurable, very grievous.

And 11 more times.