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.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יוֹם:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
2,303 total
- Isaiah 38:1בַּיָּמִ֣ים · daysIn those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
- Isaiah 38:5יָמֶ֔יךָ · your life“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Isaiah 38:10יָמַ֛י · of my lifeI said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
- Isaiah 38:12מִיּ֥וֹם · from dayMy dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 38:13מִיּ֥וֹם · from dayI composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 38:19הַיּ֑וֹםThe living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 38:20יְמֵ֥י · the daysThe LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 39:6יָמִ֣ים · The time; הַיּ֥וֹם · dayThe time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- Isaiah 39:8בְּיָמָֽי׃פ · in my lifetimeBut Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”
- Isaiah 43:13מִיּוֹם֙ · from eternityEven from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- Isaiah 47:9בְּי֥וֹם · dayThese two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
- Isaiah 48:7י֖וֹם · todayThey are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’
- Isaiah 49:8וּבְי֥וֹם · and in the dayThis is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
- Isaiah 51:9כִּ֣ימֵי · as in daysAwake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Isaiah 51:13הַיּ֗וֹםBut you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
- Isaiah 52:5הַיּ֖וֹםAnd now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
- Isaiah 52:6בַּיּ֣וֹם · on that dayTherefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
- Isaiah 53:10יָמִ֑ים · His daysYet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Isaiah 56:12י֣וֹם“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
- Isaiah 58:2י֥וֹם · day; יוֹם֙ · after dayFor day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
- Isaiah 58:3בְּי֤וֹם · on the day“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
- Isaiah 58:4כַיּ֔וֹם · as you do todayYou fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
- Isaiah 58:5י֛וֹם · a day; וְי֥וֹם · and a dayIs this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
- Isaiah 58:13בְּי֣וֹם · dayIf you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
- Isaiah 60:20יְמֵ֥י · and the daysYour sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
- Isaiah 61:2וְי֥וֹם · and the day…to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
- Isaiah 62:6הַיּ֧וֹםOn your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- Isaiah 63:4י֥וֹם · the dayFor the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
- Isaiah 63:9יְמֵ֥י · the daysIn all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
- Isaiah 63:11יְמֵֽי־ · the daysThen His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- Isaiah 65:2הַיּ֖וֹםAll day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
- Isaiah 65:5הַיּֽוֹם׃They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
- Isaiah 65:20יָמִים֙ · but a few days; יָמָ֑יו · his yearsNo longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Isaiah 65:22כִימֵ֤י · so will be the days; יְמֵ֣י · [as is] the lifetimeNo longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
- Isaiah 66:8בְּי֣וֹם · dayWho has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.
- Jeremiah 1:2בִּימֵ֛יThe word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
- Jeremiah 1:3בִּימֵ֨י · through the days…and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
- Jeremiah 1:10הַיּ֣וֹם · you todaySee, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
- Jeremiah 1:18הַיּ֗וֹם · this dayNow behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- Jeremiah 2:32יָמִ֖ים · for daysDoes a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
- Jeremiah 3:6בִּימֵי֙ · Now in the daysNow in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
- Jeremiah 3:16בַּיָּמִ֤ים · days“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
- Jeremiah 3:18בַּיָּמִ֣ים · daysIn those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
- Jeremiah 3:25הַיּ֣וֹם · dayLet us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
- Jeremiah 4:9בַיּוֹם־ · day“In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”