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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 Kings 1:6: "And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done"
1 Kings 1:25: "For he is gone down this day, oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance,"
1 Kings 1:30: "so will I certainly do this day."
1 Kings 1:48: "one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing"
1 Kings 1:51: "Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant"
1 Kings 2:1: " Now the days of David drew nigh and he charged Solomon his son,"
1 Kings 2:8: "which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he"
1 Kings 2:11: " And the days that David over Israel were forty years:"
1 Kings 2:24: "he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day."
1 Kings 2:26: "of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear"
1 Kings 2:37: "For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, the brook Kidron, thou shalt know"
1 Kings 2:38: "dwelt in Jerusalem many days."
1 Kings 2:42: "and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any"
1 Kings 3:2: "of the LORD, until those days."
1 Kings 3:6: "on his throne, as it is this day."
1 Kings 3:11: "thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches"
1 Kings 3:13: "among the kings like unto thee all thy days."
1 Kings 3:14: "did walk, then I will lengthen thy days."
1 Kings 3:18: "And it came to pass the third day that this woman was delivered also:"
1 Kings 4:21: "Solomon all the days of his life."
1 Kings 4:22: "And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour,"
1 Kings 4:25: "from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon."
1 Kings 5:1: "for Hiram was ever ever a lover of David."
1 Kings 5:7: "and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise"
1 Kings 8:8: "and there they are unto this day."
1 Kings 8:16: "Since the day that my people Israel"
1 Kings 8:24: "and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day."
1 Kings 8:28: "thy servant prayeth before thee today:"
1 Kings 8:29: "this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said,"
1 Kings 8:40: "That they may fear thee all the days that they live in"
1 Kings 8:59: "and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:"
1 Kings 8:59: "Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:"
1 Kings 8:61: "and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
1 Kings 8:64: "The same day did the king the middle of the court that"
1 Kings 8:65: "before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen"
1 Kings 8:65: "our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days."
1 Kings 8:65: "days and seven days, even fourteen days."
1 Kings 8:66: "On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king,"
1 Kings 9:3: "and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. perpetually."
1 Kings 9:13: "of Cabul unto this day."
1 Kings 9:21: "a tribute of bondservice unto this day."
1 Kings 10:12: "were seen unto this day."
1 Kings 10:21: "were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon."
1 Kings 11:12: "Notwithstanding in thy days I will not it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend"
1 Kings 11:25: "an adversary to Israel the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that"
1 Kings 11:34: "but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,"
1 Kings 11:36: "my servant may have a light always always before me in Jerusalem, the city"
1 Kings 11:39: "of David, but not forever. forever."
1 Kings 11:42: " And the time that Solomon in Jerusalem over all Israel"
1 Kings 12:5: "them, Depart for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed."









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