The meaning of “יוֹם”
Understanding yôwm reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone...
יוֹם
age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger. - 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) 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 (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 24:42 | “And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:” Word: יוֹם (yôwm) | |
| Ruth 4:5 | “Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.” Word: יוֹם (yôwm) | |
| Ezra 8:33 | “Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;” Word: יוֹם (yôwm) | |
| Song of Solomon 4:6 | “Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.” Word: יוֹם (yôwm) | |
| Joel 2:29 | “And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.” Word: יוֹם (yôwm) |
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