יוֹם

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 23:20בְּי֥וֹם · day
    And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.
  2. 2 Samuel 24:8י֖וֹם · days
    At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.
  3. 2 Samuel 24:13יָמִ֥ים · days
    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
  4. 2 Samuel 24:18בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
  5. 1 Kings 1:1בַּיָּמִ֑ים · in years
    Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
  6. 1 Kings 1:6מִיָּמָיו֙
    (His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
  7. 1 Kings 1:25הַיּ֗וֹם · today
    For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
  8. 1 Kings 1:30הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
  9. 1 Kings 1:48הַיּ֛וֹם · Today
    …saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
  10. 1 Kings 1:51כַיּוֹם֙ · first
    It was reported to Solomon: “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the sword.’”
  11. 1 Kings 2:1יְמֵֽי־ · As the time
    As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,
  12. 1 Kings 2:8בְּי֖וֹם · on the day
    Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’
  13. 1 Kings 2:11וְהַיָּמִ֗ים · The length
    The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
  14. 1 Kings 2:24הַיּ֔וֹם · today
    And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
  15. 1 Kings 2:26וּבַיּ֨וֹם · time
    Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
  16. 1 Kings 2:37בְּי֣וֹם · On the day
    On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”
  17. 1 Kings 2:38יָמִ֥ים · time
    “The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
  18. 1 Kings 2:42בְּי֣וֹם · On the day
    …the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave and go elsewhere, know for sure that you will die’? And you told me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will comply.’
  19. 1 Kings 3:2הַיָּמִ֥ים
    The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
  20. 1 Kings 3:6כַּיּ֥וֹם · very day
    Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
  21. 1 Kings 3:11יָמִ֣ים · life
    So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
  22. 1 Kings 3:13יָמֶֽיךָ׃ · your days
    Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
  23. 1 Kings 3:14יָמֶֽיךָ׃ס · your days
    So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
  24. 1 Kings 3:18בַּיּ֤וֹם · day
    On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
  25. 1 Kings 4:21יְמֵ֥י · the days
    And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
  26. 1 Kings 4:22לְי֣וֹם · day
    Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
  27. 1 Kings 4:25יְמֵ֥י · the days
    Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
  28. 1 Kings 5:1הַיָּמִֽים׃ס
    Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
  29. 1 Kings 5:7הַיּ֔וֹם · this day
    When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
  30. 1 Kings 8:8הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
  31. 1 Kings 8:16הַיּ֗וֹם · the day
    ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
  32. 1 Kings 8:24כַּיּ֥וֹם · day
    You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
  33. 1 Kings 8:28הַיּֽוֹם׃ · today
    Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
  34. 1 Kings 8:29וָי֔וֹם · and day
    May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
  35. 1 Kings 8:40הַ֨יָּמִ֔ים · the days
    …so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.
  36. 1 Kings 8:59י֥וֹם · as each day; בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃
    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
  37. 1 Kings 8:61כַּיּ֥וֹם · as it is
    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
  38. 1 Kings 8:64בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
  39. 1 Kings 8:65יָמִ֖ים · days; יָמִ֑ים · days; יֽוֹם׃ · days in all
    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
  40. 1 Kings 8:66בַּיּ֤וֹם · day
    On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
  41. 1 Kings 9:3הַיָּמִֽים׃ · time
    And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
  42. 1 Kings 9:13הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    “What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
  43. 1 Kings 9:21הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    …their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
  44. 1 Kings 10:12הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
  45. 1 Kings 10:21בִּימֵ֥י · in the days
    All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
  46. 1 Kings 11:12בְּיָמֶ֙יךָ֙ · it during your lifetime
    Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
  47. 1 Kings 11:25יְמֵ֣י · the days
    Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.