hēmera · day

What it means

hēmera (ἡμέρα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “day”.

"In the days of" someone: in their time.

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. Daytime, when it is light, not night.
2. A span counted on the calendar: “on the third day,” “forty days.”
3. The time or the years of someone's life.
4. The day of the Lord, when God judges the world.
5. Literally "day": the time set for judging; or men's judgment.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Day. Abbott-Smith notes that it also means “by day”, a day's journey and even a court of judgment. “In the days of” someone is in his time.

• A calendar day: “after six days”, “on the third day” Matthew 17:1Matthew 16:21
• “In the days of”: in the time of Matthew 2:1
• “That day”, “the day of the Lord”: the day of judgment Matthew 7:221 Thessalonians 5:2
• “The Sabbath day” Luke 4:16

How we translate it

“Day” 212 times, “days” 166, “daily” 7. It is translated “day” wherever English allows; in the expression “the Sabbath day” this edition's glossary's “Sabbath” is used.

How it is translated

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

• day ×212
• days ×166
• daily ×7
• another ×1
• broad daylight ×1
• court ×1
• midday ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×45
• Mark×27
• Luke×83
• John×31
• Acts×94
• Romans×11
• 1 Corinthians×7
• 2 Corinthians×7
• Galatians×2
• Ephesians×3
• Philippians×4
• Colossians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×6
• 2 Thessalonians×3
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×5
• Hebrews×18
• James×2
• 1 Peter×3
• 2 Peter×12
• 1 John×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×21

• Matthew 2:1

  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, look, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

• Matthew 3:1

  In those days John the Immerser appears, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea

• Matthew 4:2

  And after fasting forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

• Matthew 6:34

  So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

• Matthew 7:22

  Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many miracles?’

• Matthew 9:15

  And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

• Matthew 10:15

  Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

• Matthew 11:12

  And from the days of John the Immerser until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent people seize it.

• Matthew 11:22

  But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

• Matthew 11:24

  But I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

• Matthew 12:36

  And I tell you that for every careless word that people speak, they will give an account of it on the day of judgment;

• Matthew 12:40

  For just as Jonah was in the belly of the sea monster three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

• Matthew 13:1

  On that day Jesus, going out of the house, was sitting beside the sea.

• Matthew 15:32

  And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been staying with me three days already and they do not have anything to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”

• Matthew 16:21

  From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

• Matthew 17:1

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John his brother, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves.

• Matthew 17:23

  and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they were deeply grieved.

• Matthew 20:2

  And after agreeing with the workers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:6

  And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing there, and he says to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all the day idle?’

• Matthew 20:12

  saying, ‘These last ones worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

• Matthew 20:19

  and will hand him over to the nations to mock and flog and crucify him, and on the third day he will be raised.”

• Matthew 22:23

  On that day Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him, and they questioned him,

• Matthew 22:46

  And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day to question him any longer.

• Matthew 23:30

  and you say, ‘If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.’

• Matthew 24:19

  And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing in those days!

• Matthew 24:22

  And if those days had not been cut short, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen those days will be cut short.

• Matthew 24:29

  And at once after the affliction of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

• Matthew 24:36

  But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, except the Father alone.

• Matthew 24:37

  For just as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

• Matthew 24:38

  For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark,

• Matthew 24:42

  So keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

• Matthew 24:50

  the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know,

• Matthew 25:13

  So keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

• Matthew 26:2

  “You know that after two days the Passover comes, and the Son of Man is handed over to be crucified.”

• Matthew 26:29

  But I tell you, I will never drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”

• Matthew 26:55

  At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to arrest me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the sanctuary of God and in three days to build it.’”

• Matthew 27:40

  and saying, “You who would destroy the sanctuary and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

• Matthew 27:63

  and said, “Sir, we remember that that impostor said while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will be raised.’

• Matthew 27:64

  So order the grave to be made secure until the third day, so that his disciples may not come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

And 349 more times.