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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. James 5:5ἡμέρᾳ · [the] day
    You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
  2. 1 Peter 2:12ἡμέρᾳ · [the] day
    Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
  3. 1 Peter 3:10ἡμέρας · days
    For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
  4. 1 Peter 3:20ἡμέραις · [the] days
    …who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
  5. 2 Peter 1:19ἡμέρα · day
    We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
  6. 2 Peter 2:8ἡμέραν · day; ἡμέρας · day
    …(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
  7. 2 Peter 2:9ἡμέραν · [the] day
    …if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
  8. 2 Peter 2:13ἡμέρᾳ · broad daylight
    The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
  9. 2 Peter 3:3ἡμερῶν · days
    Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
  10. 2 Peter 3:7ἡμέραν · [the] day
    And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
  11. 2 Peter 3:8ἡμέρα · day; ἡμέρα · day
    Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
  12. 2 Peter 3:10ἡμέρα · [the] Day
    But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
  13. 2 Peter 3:12ἡμέρας · day
    …as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.
  14. 2 Peter 3:18ἡμέραν · [the] day
    But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
  15. 1 John 4:17ἡμέρᾳ · day
    In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.
  16. Jude 1:6ἡμέρας · day
    And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
  17. Revelation 1:10ἡμέρᾳ · day
    On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
  18. Revelation 2:10ἡμερῶν · days
    Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
  19. Revelation 2:13ἡμέραις · days
    I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits, yet you hold fast to My name. You did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of My faithful witness Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.
  20. Revelation 4:8ἡμέρας · Day
    And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
  21. Revelation 6:17ἡμέρα · day
    For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
  22. Revelation 7:15ἡμέρας · day
    For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.
  23. Revelation 8:12ἡμέρα · day
    Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
  24. Revelation 9:6ἡμέραις · days
    In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
  25. Revelation 9:15ἡμέραν · day
    So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
  26. Revelation 10:7ἡμέραις · days
    But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.”
  27. Revelation 11:3ἡμέρας · days
    And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
  28. Revelation 11:6ἡμέρας · days
    These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
  29. Revelation 11:9ἡμέρας · days
    For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.
  30. Revelation 11:11ἡμέρας · days
    But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.
  31. Revelation 12:6ἡμέρας · days
    And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
  32. Revelation 12:10ἡμέρας · day
    And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.
  33. Revelation 14:11ἡμέρας · Day
    And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
  34. Revelation 16:14ἡμέρας · day
    These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
  35. Revelation 18:8ἡμέρᾳ · day
    Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
  36. Revelation 20:10ἡμέρας · day
    And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  37. Revelation 21:25ἡμέρας · at the end of the day
    Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.