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
- Hosea 9:9כִּימֵ֣י · as in the daysThey have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
- Hosea 10:9מִימֵי֙ · Since the daysSince the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
- Hosea 10:14בְּי֣וֹם · in the day…the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
- Hosea 12:1הַיּ֕וֹם · day longEphraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- Hosea 12:9כִּימֵ֥י · as in the daysBut I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
- Joel 1:2בִּֽימֵיכֶ֔ם · in your days; בִּימֵ֥י · in the daysHear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
- Joel 1:15לַיּ֑וֹם · for the day; י֣וֹם · the DayAlas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Joel 2:1יוֹם־ · the DayBlow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—
- Joel 2:2י֧וֹם · a day; י֤וֹם · a day…a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- Joel 2:11יוֹם־ · the DayThe LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?
- Joel 2:29בַּיָּמִ֣ים · daysEven on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
- Joel 2:31י֣וֹם · DayThe sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
- Joel 3:1בַּיָּמִ֥ים · days“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
- Joel 3:14י֣וֹם · the DayMultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- Joel 3:18בַיּ֨וֹם · dayAnd in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- Amos 1:1בִּימֵ֣י׀ · in the days; וּבִימֵ֞יThese are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
- Amos 1:14בְּי֣וֹם · on the day; בְּי֥וֹם · on the daySo I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
- Amos 2:16בַּיּוֹם־ · dayEven the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 3:14בְּי֛וֹם · On the dayOn the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.
- Amos 4:2יָמִ֖ים · the daysThe Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Amos 4:4יָמִ֖ים · days“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
- Amos 5:8וְי֖וֹם · dayHe who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
- Amos 5:18י֣וֹם · the Day; י֥וֹם · will the DayWoe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Amos 5:20י֥וֹם · the DayWill not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
- Amos 6:3לְי֣וֹם · the dayYou dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
- Amos 8:3בַּיּ֣וֹם · day“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
- Amos 8:9בַּיּ֣וֹם · day; בְּי֥וֹם · in the daytimeAnd in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
- Amos 8:10כְּי֥וֹם · dayI will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
- Amos 8:11יָמִ֣ים · the daysBehold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
- Amos 8:13בַּיּ֨וֹם · dayIn that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- Amos 9:11בַּיּ֣וֹם · day; כִּימֵ֥י · it as in the days“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
- Amos 9:13יָמִ֤ים · the days“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- Obadiah 1:8בַּיּ֥וֹם · dayIn that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
- Obadiah 1:11בְּיוֹם֙ · On the day; בְּי֛וֹם · whileOn the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
- Obadiah 1:12בְיוֹם־ · in that day; בְּי֣וֹם · day; בְּי֣וֹם · in the day; בְּי֥וֹם · in the dayBut you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
- Obadiah 1:13בְּי֣וֹם · in the day; בְּי֣וֹם · in the day; בְּי֥וֹם · in the dayYou should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.