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יוֹם

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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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יוֹם:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,303 total
  1. 2 Samuel 7:11הַיּ֗וֹם · the day
    …and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.
  2. 2 Samuel 7:12יָמֶ֗יךָ · your days
    And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
  3. 2 Samuel 11:12הַיּ֖וֹם · one more day; בַּיּ֥וֹם · day
    “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
  4. 2 Samuel 12:18בַּיּ֥וֹם · day
    On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
  5. 2 Samuel 13:23יָמִ֔ים
    Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
  6. 2 Samuel 13:32מִיּוֹם֙ · since the day
    But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
  7. 2 Samuel 13:37הַיָּמִֽים׃ · day
    Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
  8. 2 Samuel 14:2יָמִ֣ים · time
    So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
  9. 2 Samuel 14:22הַיּוֹם֩ · Today
    Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
  10. 2 Samuel 14:26יָמִ֤ים׀; לַיָּמִים֙
    And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
  11. 2 Samuel 14:28יָמִ֑ים · years
    Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
  12. 2 Samuel 15:20וְהַיּ֞וֹם · today
    In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”
  13. 2 Samuel 16:3הַיּ֗וֹם · Today
    “Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
  14. 2 Samuel 16:12הַיּ֥וֹם · today
    Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
  15. 2 Samuel 16:23בַּיָּמִ֣ים · days
    Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.
  16. 2 Samuel 18:7בַּיּ֥וֹם · day
    There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
  17. 2 Samuel 18:8בַּיּ֥וֹם · day
    The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
  18. 2 Samuel 18:18הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
  19. 2 Samuel 18:20הַיּ֣וֹם · today; בְּי֣וֹם · day; וְהַיּ֤וֹם · today
    But Joab replied, “You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but you must not do so today, because the king’s son is dead.”
  20. 2 Samuel 18:31הַיּ֔וֹם · Today
    Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: Today the LORD has avenged you of all who rose up against you!”
  21. 2 Samuel 19:2בַּיּ֥וֹם · day’s; בַּיּ֤וֹם · day
    And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”
  22. 2 Samuel 19:3בַּיּ֥וֹם · day
    So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.
  23. 2 Samuel 19:5הַיּ֜וֹם · Today; הַיּ֔וֹם
    Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
  24. 2 Samuel 19:6הַיּ֗וֹם · today; הַיּ֗וֹם · today; הַיּוֹם֙
    You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
  25. 2 Samuel 19:13הַיָּמִ֖ים
    And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
  26. 2 Samuel 19:19בַּיּ֕וֹם · on the day
    …and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
  27. 2 Samuel 19:20הַיּ֗וֹם · today
    For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
  28. 2 Samuel 19:22הַיּ֖וֹם · today; הַיּ֗וֹם · today; הַיּ֖וֹם · today
    And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
  29. 2 Samuel 19:24הַיּוֹם֙ · the day; הַיּ֖וֹם · the day
    Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
  30. 2 Samuel 19:34יְמֵי֙ · years
    But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
  31. 2 Samuel 19:35הַיּ֜וֹם · now
    I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
  32. 2 Samuel 20:3י֥וֹם · the day
    When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
  33. 2 Samuel 20:4יָמִ֑ים · days
    Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
  34. 2 Samuel 21:1בִּימֵ֨י · During the reign
    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
  35. 2 Samuel 21:9בִּימֵ֤י · days
    And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
  36. 2 Samuel 21:12בְּי֨וֹם · after
    …he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
  37. 2 Samuel 22:1בְּיוֹם֩ · on the day
    And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
  38. 2 Samuel 22:19בְּי֣וֹם · in my day
    They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
  39. 2 Samuel 23:10בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    …but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.