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ἡμέρα

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greekNew TestamentNoun · feminine389 occurrences23 books368 verses

Definition

ἡμέρα, -ας, ἡ,

[in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for יוֹם ;]

day;

1. as distinct from night: genitive ἡμέρας, by day (WM, §30, 11), Revelation 21:25; ἡ. κ. νυκτός (ν. κ. ̔ἡ.), Acts 9:24, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, Revelation 4:8 (BL, §36, 13); ἡμέρας μέσης, at mid-day, Acts 26:13; accusative durat., τ. ἡμέρας, Luke 21:37; ὅλην τὴν ἡ., Romans 8:36; ἐν ἡμέρα, John 11:9, Romans 13:13; ἡμέρας ὁδός, a day's journey, Luke 2:44; ἡ. γίνεται, Luke 4:42; 22:66; κλίνει, Luke 9:12, al.; metaphorically, John 9:4, Romans 13:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:4, 5 8, 2 Peter 1:19.

2. Of a civil day of 24 hours, incl. night: Matthew 6:34, Mark 6:21, Luke 13:14, al.; τρίτῃ ἡ., Matthew 16:21; ἡμέρᾳ κ. ἡ. (cf. יוֹם בְּיוֹם, Esther 3:4), 2 Corinthians 4:16; ὅλην τ. ἡ., Romans 8:36; 10:21; pl., John 2:12, Acts 9:19, al.; ἡ. τῶν ἀζύμων, Acts 12:3; τ. σαββάτου, Luke 13:14, 16; ἡ κυριάκη ἡ., Revelation 1:10.

3. In Messianic sense, of the last day: ἡ ἡ. (ἐκείνη, τ. κυρίου, etc.), Matthew 7:22, Luke 6:23, Romans 13:12, 1 Corinthians 1:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, 2 Peter 3:10, al; by meton., as compared with the divine judgment on that day, ἡ. ἀνθρωπίνη, of a human tribunal, 1 Corinthians 4:3 (EV, man's judgment).

4. As in Heb. (also in Gk. writers; Bl, §46, 9; M, Pr., 81), of time in general: John 8:56; 14:20, 2 Corinthians 6:2, Ephesians 6:13, 2 Peter 3:18; pl. Acts 15:7, Ephesians 5:16, Hebrews 10:32; πᾶσας τὰς ἡ. (cf. כָּל הַיָּמִים, Deuteronomy 4:40, al.; MM, Exp., xv), Matthew 28:20; ἐλεύσονται ἡ. ὅταν (ὅτε), Matthew 9:15, Mark 2:20, Luke 5:35; 17:22; αἱ ἡ., with genitive of person(s) (Genesis 26:1, al.), Matthew 2:1, Luke 1:5, Acts 7:45, 1 Peter 3:20; ἀρχ̀ ἡμερῶν, Hebrews 7:3.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ἡμέρα:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

389 total
  1. Luke 6:12ἡμέραις · days
    In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
  2. Luke 6:13ἡμέρα · daylight
    When daylight came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also designated as apostles:
  3. Luke 6:23ἡμέρᾳ · day
    Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
  4. Luke 8:22ἡμερῶν · day
    One day Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat with them and set out.
  5. Luke 9:12ἡμέρα · day
    As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.”
  6. Luke 9:22ἡμέρᾳ · day
    “The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
  7. Luke 9:23ἡμέραν · daily
    Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
  8. Luke 9:28ἡμέραι · days
    About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.
  9. Luke 9:36ἡμέραις · days
    After the voice had spoken, only Jesus was present with them. The disciples kept this to themselves, and in those days they did not tell anyone what they had seen.
  10. Luke 9:37ἡμέρᾳ · day
    The next day, when they came down from the mountain, Jesus was met by a large crowd.
  11. Luke 9:51ἡμέρας · day
    As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
  12. Luke 10:12ἡμέρᾳ · day
    I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
  13. Luke 11:3ἡμέραν · day
    Give us each day our daily bread.
  14. Luke 12:46ἡμέρᾳ · a day
    The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
  15. Luke 13:14ἡμέραι · days; ἡμέρᾳ
    But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
  16. Luke 13:16ἡμέρᾳ · day
    Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
  17. Luke 14:5ἡμέρᾳ · day
    And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”
  18. Luke 15:13ἡμέρας · days
    After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
  19. Luke 16:19ἡμέραν
    Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
  20. Luke 17:4ἡμέρας · day
    Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
  21. Luke 17:22ἡμέραι · [The] time; ἡμερῶν · days
    Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
  22. Luke 17:24ἡμέρᾳ · day
    For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.
  23. Luke 17:26ἡμέραις · days; ἡμέραις · days
    Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
  24. Luke 17:27ἡμέρας · day
    People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
  25. Luke 17:28ἡμέραις · days
    It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
  26. Luke 17:29ἡμέρᾳ · day
    But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  27. Luke 17:30ἡμέρᾳ · day
    It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
  28. Luke 17:31ἡμέρᾳ · day
    On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
  29. Luke 18:7ἡμέρας · day
    Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?
  30. Luke 18:33ἡμέρᾳ · day
    They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”
  31. Luke 19:42ἡμέρᾳ · day
    …and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
  32. Luke 19:43ἡμέραι · [the] days
    For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
  33. Luke 19:47ἡμέραν · day
    Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
  34. Luke 20:1ἡμερῶν · day
    One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and scribes, together with the elders, came up to Him.
  35. Luke 21:6ἡμέραι · [the] time
    “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
  36. Luke 21:22ἡμέραι · [the] days
    For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
  37. Luke 21:23ἡμέραις · days [will be]
    How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
  38. Luke 21:34ἡμέρα · day
    But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
  39. Luke 21:37ἡμέρας · day
    Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.
  40. Luke 22:7ἡμέρα · day
    Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
  41. Luke 22:53ἡμέραν · day
    Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”
  42. Luke 22:66ἡμέρα · At daybreak
    At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,
  43. Luke 23:7ἡμέραις · time
    And learning that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem at that time.
  44. Luke 23:12ἡμέρᾳ · day
    That day Herod and Pilate became friends; before this time they had been enemies.
  45. Luke 23:29ἡμέραι · [the] days
    Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
  46. Luke 23:54ἡμέρα · Day
    It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was beginning.
  47. Luke 24:7ἡμέρᾳ · day
    ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’”