mchorat · next day

What it means

mchorat (מׇחֳרָת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “next day”.

The next day, tomorrow.

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 day that follows the one being told.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• next day ×22
• day after ×8
• next ×2

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×4
• Joshua×2
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×7
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 19:34

  The next day the older said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

• Exodus 9:6

  And YHWH did this thing the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the sons of Israel not one died.

• Exodus 18:13

  The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

• Exodus 32:6

  And they rose early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

• Exodus 32:30

  And it happened on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to YHWH; perhaps I can make expiation for your sin.”

• Leviticus 7:16

  But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten.

• Leviticus 19:6

  It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it and on the next day, and what is left until the third day shall be burned in the fire.

• Leviticus 23:11

  And he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH for your acceptance; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

• Leviticus 23:15

  And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full Sabbaths they shall be.

• Leviticus 23:16

  Until the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days, and you shall present a new grain offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 11:32

  And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

• Numbers 16:41

  But on the next day all the community of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of YHWH.”

• Numbers 17:8

  And it happened on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and look, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and it had put forth buds and produced blossoms and ripened almonds.

• Numbers 33:3

  They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a raised hand before the eyes of all Egypt,

• Joshua 5:11

  They ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and roasted grain, on this very day.

• Joshua 5:12

  The manna ceased on the day after, when they ate of the produce of the land; and there was no longer manna for the sons of Israel, but they ate of the harvest of the land of Canaan that year.

• Judges 6:38

  And it was so. He rose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full bowl of water.

• Judges 9:42

  The next day the people went out into the field, and it was told to Abimelech.

• Judges 21:4

  And it happened the next day that the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

• 1 Samuel 5:3

  And the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, and there was Dagon, fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of YHWH. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

• 1 Samuel 5:4

  And they rose early in the morning the next day, and there was Dagon, fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of YHWH, and the head of Dagon and both palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold; only Dagon was left to him.

• 1 Samuel 11:11

  And it came about on the next day that Saul put the people in three groups, and they came into the midst of the camp in the watch of the morning, and they struck Ammon until the heat of the day. And those who remained scattered, and not two of them were left together.

• 1 Samuel 18:10

  And it came about on the next day that an evil spirit of Elohim came mightily upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house, while David was playing with his hand, as day by day; and the spear was in the hand of Saul.

• 1 Samuel 20:27

  And it came about on the day after the new moon, the second day, that the place of David was empty; and Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the meal?”

• 1 Samuel 30:17

  David struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on the camels and fled.

• 1 Samuel 31:8

  The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

• 2 Samuel 11:12

  David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you away.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

• 2 Kings 8:15

  And it happened on the next day that he took the cloth and dipped it in the water and spread it over his face, and he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 10:8

  And the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

• 1 Chronicles 29:21

  They sacrificed sacrifices to YHWH and offered burnt offerings to YHWH on the day after that day: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

• Jeremiah 20:3

  And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks, and Jeremiah said to him, “Not ‘Pashhur’ has YHWH called your name, but ‘Terror on Every Side.’

• Jonah 4:7

  But Elohim appointed a worm when the dawn came up the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.