יוֹם
yomdayHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine2,303 occurrences39 books1,930 verses
Definition
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)
Traditional renderings: age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, × required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger.
Traditional renderings: age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, × required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
2,303 total
- Genesis 1:5י֔וֹם · day; י֥וֹם · dayGod called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
- Genesis 1:8י֥וֹם · dayGod called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
- Genesis 1:13י֥וֹם · dayAnd there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
- Genesis 1:14הַיּ֖וֹם · the day; וּלְיָמִ֖ים · and daysAnd God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
- Genesis 1:16הַיּ֔וֹם · the dayGod made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
- Genesis 1:18בַּיּ֣וֹם · the day…to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:19י֥וֹם · dayAnd there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
- Genesis 1:23י֥וֹם · dayAnd there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
- Genesis 1:31י֥וֹם · dayAnd God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:2בַּיּ֣וֹם · day; בַּיּ֣וֹם · dayAnd by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Genesis 2:3י֣וֹם · dayThen God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
- Genesis 2:4בְּי֗וֹם · in the dayThis is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
- Genesis 2:17בְּי֛וֹם · in the day…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
- Genesis 3:5בְּיוֹם֙ · in the day“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- Genesis 3:8הַיּ֑וֹם · of the dayThen the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:14יְמֵ֥י · the daysSo the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:17יְמֵ֥י · the daysAnd to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 4:3יָמִ֑ים · of timeSo in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
- Genesis 4:14הַיּ֗וֹם · dayBehold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
- Genesis 5:1בְּי֗וֹם · In the dayThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
- Genesis 5:2בְּי֖וֹם · And in the dayMale and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
- Genesis 5:4יְמֵי־And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:5יְמֵ֤יSo Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:8יְמֵי־So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:11יְמֵ֣יSo Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:14יְמֵ֣יSo Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:17יְמֵ֣יSo Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:20יְמֵי־So Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:23יְמֵ֣יSo Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
- Genesis 5:27יְמֵ֣יSo Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:31יְמֵי־So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 6:3יָמָ֔יו · his daysSo the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Genesis 6:4בַּיָּמִ֣ים · in those daysThe Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:5הַיּֽוֹם׃ · the timeThen the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Genesis 7:4לְיָמִ֨ים · days; י֔וֹם · daysFor seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- Genesis 7:10הַיָּמִ֑ים · daysAnd after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
- Genesis 7:11י֖וֹם · day; בַּיּ֣וֹםIn the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Genesis 7:12י֔וֹם · daysAnd the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:13הַיּ֤וֹם · dayOn that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- Genesis 7:17י֖וֹם · daysFor forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
- Genesis 7:24יֽוֹם׃ · daysAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
- Genesis 8:3יֽוֹם׃ · daysThe waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
- Genesis 8:4י֖וֹם · dayOn the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
- Genesis 8:6י֑וֹם · daysAfter forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
- Genesis 8:10יָמִ֖ים · daysNoah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.