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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. Acts 21:10ἡμέρας · days
    After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
  2. Acts 21:15ἡμέρας · days
    After these days, we packed up and went on to Jerusalem.
  3. Acts 21:26ἡμέρᾳ · day; ἡμερῶν · date
    So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.
  4. Acts 21:27ἡμέραι · days
    When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
  5. Acts 21:38ἡμερῶν
    “Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the Assassins into the wilderness?”
  6. Acts 23:1ἡμέρας · day
    Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
  7. Acts 23:12ἡμέρας
    When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
  8. Acts 24:1ἡμέρας · days
    Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
  9. Acts 24:11ἡμέραι · days
    You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
  10. Acts 24:24ἡμέρας · days
    After several days, Felix returned with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
  11. Acts 25:1ἡμέρας · days
    Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
  12. Acts 25:6ἡμέρας · days
    After spending no more than eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered that Paul be brought in.
  13. Acts 25:13Ἡμερῶν · days
    After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
  14. Acts 25:14ἡμέρας · days
    Since they were staying several days, Festus laid out Paul’s case before the king: “There is a certain man whom Felix left in prison.
  15. Acts 26:7ἡμέραν · day
    …the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.
  16. Acts 26:13ἡμέρας
    About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
  17. Acts 26:22ἡμέρας · day
    But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
  18. Acts 27:7ἡμέραις · days
    After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
  19. Acts 27:20ἡμέρας · days
    When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
  20. Acts 27:29ἡμέραν · daybreak
    Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
  21. Acts 27:33ἡμέρα · daybreak; ἡμέραν · day
    Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.
  22. Acts 27:39ἡμέρα · daylight
    When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they sighted a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
  23. Acts 28:7ἡμέρας · days
    Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
  24. Acts 28:12ἡμέρας · days
    Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
  25. Acts 28:13ἡμέραν · day
    From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.
  26. Acts 28:14ἡμέρας
    There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.
  27. Acts 28:17ἡμέρας · days
    After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
  28. Acts 28:23ἡμέραν · a day
    So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
  29. Romans 2:5ἡμέρᾳ · [the] day
    But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  30. Romans 2:16ἡμέρᾳ · day
    …on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
  31. Romans 8:36ἡμέραν · day long
    As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
  32. Romans 10:21ἡμέραν · day long
    But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
  33. Romans 11:8ἡμέρας
    …as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
  34. Romans 13:12ἡμέρα · day
    The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
  35. Romans 13:13ἡμέρᾳ · [the] daytime
    Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
  36. Romans 14:5ἡμέραν · [a certain] day; ἡμέραν · [the others]; ἡμέραν · day [alike]
    One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
  37. Romans 14:6ἡμέραν · [a special] day
    He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
  38. 1 Corinthians 1:8ἡμέρᾳ · day
    He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  39. 1 Corinthians 3:13ἡμέρα · Day
    …his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
  40. 1 Corinthians 4:3ἡμέρας · court
    I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
  41. 1 Corinthians 5:5ἡμέρᾳ · Day
    …hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
  42. 1 Corinthians 10:8ἡμέρᾳ · day
    We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
  43. 1 Corinthians 15:4ἡμέρᾳ · day
    …that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
  44. 1 Corinthians 15:31ἡμέραν · day
    I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  45. 2 Corinthians 1:14ἡμέρᾳ · day
    …as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
  46. 2 Corinthians 3:14ἡμέρας · day
    But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.