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Strong's #3117: yowm (pronounced yome)

from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yôm

1) day, time, year

1a) day (as opposed to night)

1b) day (24 hour period)

1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1

1b2) as a division of time

1b2a) a working day, a day' s journey

1c) days, lifetime (plural)

1d) time, period (general)

1e) year

1f) temporal references

1f1) today

1f2) yesterday

1f3) tomorrow

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to be hot



Usage:

This word is used 2295 times:

1 Samuel 7:2: "while the ark in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty"
1 Samuel 7:6: "the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD."
1 Samuel 7:10: "with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten"
1 Samuel 7:13: "of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel."
1 Samuel 7:15: "all the days of his life."
1 Samuel 8:8: "the works which since the day since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt"
1 Samuel 8:8: "that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken"
1 Samuel 8:18: "And ye shall cry out in that day of your king which ye shall have chosen"
1 Samuel 8:18: "you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day."
1 Samuel 9:9: "to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was formerly called a Seer.)"
1 Samuel 9:12: "now, for he came today to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people"
1 Samuel 9:12: "for there is a sacrifice of the people today in the high place:"
1 Samuel 9:13: "that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find"
1 Samuel 9:15: "his ear a day before Saul came, saying,"
1 Samuel 9:19: "me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me today, and tomorrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all"
1 Samuel 9:20: "And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not"
1 Samuel 9:20: "that were lost three ago, set not thy mind"
1 Samuel 9:24: "with Samuel that day."
1 Samuel 9:27: "before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may show thee the word"
1 Samuel 10:2: "When thou art departed from me today, two men by"
1 Samuel 10:8: "sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to"
1 Samuel 10:9: "those signs came to pass that day."
1 Samuel 10:19: "And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved"
1 Samuel 11:3: "said him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all"
1 Samuel 11:11: "the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered,"
1 Samuel 11:13: "be put to death this day: for today the LORD hath wrought"
1 Samuel 11:13: "this day: for today the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel."
1 Samuel 12:2: "you from my childhood unto this day."
1 Samuel 12:5: "against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught"
1 Samuel 12:17: "Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send"
1 Samuel 12:18: "thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared"
1 Samuel 13:8: "And he tarried seven days, that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came"
1 Samuel 13:11: "from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together"
1 Samuel 13:22: "So it came to pass in the day of battle, sword nor spear found in the hand"
1 Samuel 14:1: "Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan of Saul said unto the young man"
1 Samuel 14:18: "of God was at that time with the children of Israel."
1 Samuel 14:23: "that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven."
1 Samuel 14:24: "of Israel were distressed day: for Saul had adjured the people,"
1 Samuel 14:28: "straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day."
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, if haply the people today of the spoil"
1 Samuel 14:31: "And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people"
1 Samuel 14:33: "a great stone unto me this day."
1 Samuel 14:37: "But he answered him not that day."
1 Samuel 14:38: "this sin hath been this day."
1 Samuel 14:45: "he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued"
1 Samuel 14:52: "the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any"
1 Samuel 15:28: "the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, that is better"
1 Samuel 15:35: "Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned"
1 Samuel 16:13: "came upon David from that day from that day forward. So Samuel"
1 Samuel 17:10: "the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together."









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