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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:

Ezra 4:5: "their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until"
Ezra 4:7: " And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions,"
Ezra 6:22: "the feast of unleavened bread days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful,"
Ezra 8:15: "and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found"
Ezra 8:32: "and abode three days."
Ezra 8:33: "Now on the fourth day was the silver and the vessels weighed in the house of our God"
Ezra 9:7: "Since the days Since the days of our fathers have we trespass unto this"
Ezra 9:7: "trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings,"
Ezra 9:7: "and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day."
Ezra 9:15: "we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for"
Ezra 10:8: "And that whosoever would not come days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders,"
Ezra 10:9: "gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth"
Ezra 10:13: "neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many"
Ezra 10:16: "were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter."
Ezra 10:17: "wives by the first day of the first month."
Nehemiah 1:4: "that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before"
Nehemiah 1:6: "which I pray before thee now, day and night, for"
Nehemiah 1:11: "and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this"
Nehemiah 2:11: "there three days."
Nehemiah 4:2: "will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps"
Nehemiah 4:16: "And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work,"
Nehemiah 4:22: "they may be a guard to us, and labor on the day."
Nehemiah 5:11: "Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth"
Nehemiah 5:14: "Moreover from the time from the time that to be their governor in the land"
Nehemiah 5:18: "Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six"
Nehemiah 5:18: "also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine:"
Nehemiah 6:15: "day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days."
Nehemiah 6:17: "Moreover in those days of Judah sent many letters"
Nehemiah 8:2: "and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month."
Nehemiah 8:3: "from the morning until midday, midday, before the men and the women,"
Nehemiah 8:9: "unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn"
Nehemiah 8:10: "unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry;"
Nehemiah 8:11: "saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved."
Nehemiah 8:13: "And on the second day were gathered together of the fathers of all the people, the priests,"
Nehemiah 8:17: "and sat under the booths: for since the days since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun"
Nehemiah 8:17: "the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel"
Nehemiah 8:18: " Also day by day, from day unto the last day,"
Nehemiah 8:18: "Also day by day, from day unto the last day,"
Nehemiah 8:18: "by day, from day unto the last day, he read"
Nehemiah 8:18: "day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God."
Nehemiah 8:18: "And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner."
Nehemiah 8:18: "seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner."
Nehemiah 9:1: "Now in the twenty and fourth day month the children of Israel were assembled"
Nehemiah 9:3: "of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshiped the LORD"
Nehemiah 9:10: "them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day."
Nehemiah 9:32: "and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time since the time of the kings of Assyria unto"
Nehemiah 9:32: "of the kings of Assyria unto this day."
Nehemiah 9:36: "Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers"
Nehemiah 10:31: "or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of"
Nehemiah 10:31: "it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year,"









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