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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. Esther 4:11יֽוֹם׃ · days
    “All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
  2. Esther 4:16יָמִים֙ · days; וָי֔וֹם · or day
    “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
  3. Esther 5:1בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace across from the king’s quarters. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom, facing the entrance.
  4. Esther 5:4הַיּ֔וֹם · today
    “If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
  5. Esther 5:9בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.
  6. Esther 6:1הַיָּמִ֔ים
    That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
  7. Esther 7:2בַּיּ֤וֹם · day
    …and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
  8. Esther 8:1בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
  9. Esther 8:12בְּי֣וֹם · day [appointed]
    The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
  10. Esther 8:13לַיּ֣וֹם · day
    A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
  11. Esther 8:17וְי֣וֹם · and celebrating
    In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
  12. Esther 9:1יוֹם֙ · day; בַּיּ֗וֹם · On this day
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
  13. Esther 9:11בַּיּ֣וֹם · day
    On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
  14. Esther 9:13הַיּ֑וֹם · today’s
    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
  15. Esther 9:15בְּי֣וֹם · day
    On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  16. Esther 9:17בְּיוֹם־ · day; י֖וֹם · a day
    This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
  17. Esther 9:18י֖וֹם · a day
    The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
  18. Esther 9:19י֣וֹם · as a day; וְי֣וֹם · It is a holiday
    This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
  19. Esther 9:21י֣וֹם · days; יוֹם־
    …to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
  20. Esther 9:22כַּיָּמִ֗ים · as the days; לְי֣וֹם · into a holiday; יְמֵי֙ · days
    …as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
  21. Esther 9:26לַיָּמִ֨ים · days
    Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
  22. Esther 9:27הַיָּמִים֙ · days
    …the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
  23. Esther 9:28וְהַיָּמִ֣ים · days; וִימֵ֞י · days
    These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
  24. Esther 9:31יְמֵי֩ · days
    …in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
  25. Esther 10:2הַיָּמִ֔ים
    And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
  26. Job 1:4יוֹמ֑וֹ
    Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
  27. Job 1:5יְמֵ֨י · the days; הַיָּמִֽים׃פ
    And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
  28. Job 1:6הַיּ֔וֹם · One day
    One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
  29. Job 1:13הַיּ֑וֹם · One day
    One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
  30. Job 2:1הַיּ֔וֹם · day
    On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
  31. Job 2:13יָמִ֖ים · days
    Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
  32. Job 3:1יוֹמֽוֹ׃פ · the day of his [birth]
    After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
  33. Job 3:3י֭וֹם · May the day
    “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
  34. Job 3:4הַיּ֥וֹם · day
    If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
  35. Job 3:5יֽוֹם׃ · of the day
    May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
  36. Job 3:6בִּימֵ֣י · among the days
    If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
  37. Job 3:8י֑וֹם · the day
    May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
  38. Job 7:1וְכִימֵ֖י · Are not his days; יָמָֽיו׃ · like those
    “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
  39. Job 7:6יָמַ֣י · My days
    My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
  40. Job 7:16יָמָֽי׃ · my days [are]
    I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.