Strong G2250ἡμέρα
day
- Transliteration
- hēmera
- Pronunciation
- hay-mer'-ah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Feminine (with G5610 implied) of a derivative of ἧμαι hēmai (to sit; akin to the base of G1476) meaning tame that is gentle;
day that is (literally) the time space between dawn and dark or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context): - age + alway (mid-) day (by day [-ly]) + for ever judgment (day) time while years.
day that is (literally) the time space between dawn and dark or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context): - age + alway (mid-) day (by day [-ly]) + for ever judgment (day) time while years.
Detailed definition
ἡμέρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for יוֹם;]
day;
1. as distinct from night: genitive ἡμέρας, by day (WM, §30, 11), Rev.21:25; ἡ. κ. νυκτός (ν. κ. ̔ἡ.), Act.9:24, 1Th.2:9, 2Th.3:8, Rev.4:8 (BL, §36, 13); ἡμέρας μέσης, at mid-day, Act.26:13; accusative durat., τ. ἡμέρας, Luk.21:37; ὅλην τὴν ἡ., Rom.8:36; ἐν ἡμέρα, Jhn.11:9, Rom.13:13; ἡμέρας ὁδός, a day's journey, Luk.2:44; ἡ. γίνεται, Lk 4:42 22:66; κλίνει, Luk.9:12, al.; metaphorically, Jhn.9:4, Rom.13:12, 1Th.5:4, 5 8, 2Pe.1:19.
2. Of a civil day of 24 hours, incl. night: Mat.6:34, Mrk.6:21, Luk.13:14, al.; τρίτῃ ἡ., Mat.16:21; ἡμέρᾳ κ. ἡ. (cf. יוֹם בְּיוֹם, Est.3:4), 2Co.4:16; ὅλην τ. ἡ., Rom.8:36 10:21; pl., Jhn.2:12, Act.9:19, al.; ἡ. τῶν ἀζύμων, Act.12:3; τ. σαββάτου, Luk.13:14, 16; ἡ κυριάκη ἡ., Rev.1:10.
3. In Messianic sense, of the last day: ἡ ἡ. (ἐκείνη, τ. κυρίου, etc.), Mat.7:22, Luk.6:23, Rom.13:12, 1Co.1:8, 1Th.5:2, 2Th.2:2, 2Pe.3:10, al; by meton., as compared with the divine judgment on that day, ἡ. ἀνθρωπίνη, of a human tribunal, 1Co.4:3 (EV, man's judgment).
4. As in Heb. (also in Gk. writers; Bl, §46, 9; M, Pr., 81), of time in general: Jhn.8:56 14:20, 2Co.6:2, Eph.6:13, 2Pe.3:18; pl. Act.15:7, Eph.5:16, Heb.10:32; πᾶσας τὰς ἡ. (cf. כָּל הַיָּמִים, Deu.4:40, al.; MM, Exp., xv), Mat.28:20; ἐλεύσονται ἡ. ὅταν (ὅτε), Mat.9:15, Mrk.2:20, Luk.5:35 17:22; αἱ ἡ., with genitive of person(s) (Gen.26:1, al.), Mat.2:1, Luk.1:5, Act.7:45, 1Pe.3:20; ἀρχ̀ ἡμερῶν, Heb.7:3.
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for יוֹם;]
day;
1. as distinct from night: genitive ἡμέρας, by day (WM, §30, 11), Rev.21:25; ἡ. κ. νυκτός (ν. κ. ̔ἡ.), Act.9:24, 1Th.2:9, 2Th.3:8, Rev.4:8 (BL, §36, 13); ἡμέρας μέσης, at mid-day, Act.26:13; accusative durat., τ. ἡμέρας, Luk.21:37; ὅλην τὴν ἡ., Rom.8:36; ἐν ἡμέρα, Jhn.11:9, Rom.13:13; ἡμέρας ὁδός, a day's journey, Luk.2:44; ἡ. γίνεται, Lk 4:42 22:66; κλίνει, Luk.9:12, al.; metaphorically, Jhn.9:4, Rom.13:12, 1Th.5:4, 5 8, 2Pe.1:19.
2. Of a civil day of 24 hours, incl. night: Mat.6:34, Mrk.6:21, Luk.13:14, al.; τρίτῃ ἡ., Mat.16:21; ἡμέρᾳ κ. ἡ. (cf. יוֹם בְּיוֹם, Est.3:4), 2Co.4:16; ὅλην τ. ἡ., Rom.8:36 10:21; pl., Jhn.2:12, Act.9:19, al.; ἡ. τῶν ἀζύμων, Act.12:3; τ. σαββάτου, Luk.13:14, 16; ἡ κυριάκη ἡ., Rev.1:10.
3. In Messianic sense, of the last day: ἡ ἡ. (ἐκείνη, τ. κυρίου, etc.), Mat.7:22, Luk.6:23, Rom.13:12, 1Co.1:8, 1Th.5:2, 2Th.2:2, 2Pe.3:10, al; by meton., as compared with the divine judgment on that day, ἡ. ἀνθρωπίνη, of a human tribunal, 1Co.4:3 (EV, man's judgment).
4. As in Heb. (also in Gk. writers; Bl, §46, 9; M, Pr., 81), of time in general: Jhn.8:56 14:20, 2Co.6:2, Eph.6:13, 2Pe.3:18; pl. Act.15:7, Eph.5:16, Heb.10:32; πᾶσας τὰς ἡ. (cf. כָּל הַיָּמִים, Deu.4:40, al.; MM, Exp., xv), Mat.28:20; ἐλεύσονται ἡ. ὅταν (ὅτε), Mat.9:15, Mrk.2:20, Luk.5:35 17:22; αἱ ἡ., with genitive of person(s) (Gen.26:1, al.), Mat.2:1, Luk.1:5, Act.7:45, 1Pe.3:20; ἀρχ̀ ἡμερῶν, Heb.7:3.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2250 appears in 366 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- day332
- daily18
- the17
- time5
- at3
- of3
- while2
- year2
- an1
- another1
- judgment1
- long1
First verses
- Matthew 2:1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
- Matthew 3:1In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
- Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Matthew 6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
- Matthew 7:22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
- Matthew 9:15And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
- Matthew 10:15Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
- Matthew 11:12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Matthew 11:22But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
- Matthew 11:24But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
- Matthew 12:36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
- Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 13:1The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
- Matthew 15:32Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
- Matthew 16:21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
- Matthew 17:1And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
- Matthew 17:23And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
- Matthew 20:2And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
- Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
- Matthew 20:12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἡμέρα,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ἡμέρη [Refs (“IG” 12(5).1 (from Ios))], Doric dialect ἀμέρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work = 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies”]5(1).213.43, +others, 1390.109, 1432.25, “Test.Epict.” 4.12, “Michel” 995 A 32, etc.)], Locrian dialect ἀμάρα [Refs (“IG” 9(1).334.42)] (aspirated perhaps only in Attic dialect and West Ionic dialect, compare ἐπάμερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, etc., αὐθημερόν “IG” 7.235.18 (from Oropus))], etc.; usually unaspirated in early Attic dialect Inscrr., [Refs (“IG” 12.49.6, +others)]; aspirated in codices even in dialects: original ἀμέρα probably took aspirate from ἑσπέρα): ἡ:—day, less frequently than ἦμαρ in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἡ. ἥδε κακὸν φέρει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.541, 13.828)]; τίς νύ μοι ἡ. ἥδ; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.514; νύκτες τε καὶ ἡ. 14.93)]; μῆνές τε καὶ ἡ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (. [prev. work] 293; νοῦσοι ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ αἳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ νυκτί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 102)]; ἡ σήμερον ἡ., see at {σήμερον· ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ} or ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ at daybreak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.6, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.76; ἅμ᾽ ἡμέρῃ διαφωσκούσῃ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.86)]; ἡ. διέλαμψεν, ἐξέλαμψεν, ὑπέφαινε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 744, “Pax” 304, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.14)]; τῆς ἡ. ὀψέ late in the day, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 2.1.23.)]
2 sometimes like Epic dialect ἦμαρ, with adjectives to describe a state or time of life, ἐπίπονος ἁ. a life of misery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 654 (Lyric poetry))]; λυπρὰν ἄγειν ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 364)]; ἐχθρὰ ἡ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 540)]; παλαιὰ ἁ. old age, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 623 (but θεία ἡ. [prev. author] “fragment” 950 is uncertain reading))]; τερμία ἁ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Ant.” 1330 (Lyric poetry))]; αἱ μακραὶ ἁμέραι length of days, [Refs ([prev. author] “OC” 1216 (Lyric poetry))]; νέα ἁ. youth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 720 (Lyric poetry))]; so τῇ πρώτῃ ἡ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1389a24)]; ἐπὶ τῇ τελευταίᾳ ἡ. at the close of life,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1389b33, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1529)]; ζοὴν βλέπουσιν ἡ. look life-like, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.68.)]
3 poetry for time, ἡ. κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν ἅπαντα τἀνθρώπεια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 131; ἐς τόδ᾽ ἡμέρας [prev. author] “OC” 1138: _plural_, ἐν ἡμέραις τινός)] in the days of.., [LXX (LXX.1Ch.4.41, etc.)]; ἡ. ἀρχαῖαι[LXX (LXX.Psa.142(143).5.)]
4 birthday, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 4.41.)]
5 a fixed day, τακτὴ ἡ. [NT (NT.Act.12.21)]; ῥητὴ ἡ. [NT+1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 19; ἡ. ἔστησαν ἀρχαιρεσιῶν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.48, cf. NT.Act.17.31; ἡ. Κυρίου LXX.Joel.2.1, cf. NT.2Pet.3.12, etc.; ἡ. κρίσεως NT.Matt.10.15: so _absolutely_, ὑπὸ ἀνθρωπίνης ἡμέρας)] a human tribunal, [NT (NT.1Cor.4.3; ἡμέραι καὶ ἀγῶνες “Jahresh.” 23 “Beibl.” 93 (Pamphyl.).)]
6 in plural, age, προβεβηκὼς ἐν ταῖς ἡ. [LXX+NT (NT.Luke.1.7, cf. LXX.Gen.47.8, etc.)]
II absolutely usages,
II.1 genitive, τριῶν ἡμερέων within three days, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.3)]; ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων within a few days, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.26, etc.)]; ἄλλης ἡ. another day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 698)]; τῆς αὐτῆς ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.87; μιᾶς ἀμέρας “IG” 5(1).213.43 (Sparta, 5th c.BC))]; ἡμέρας by day, opposed to νυκτός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 65; οὔθ᾽ ἡμέρας οὔτε νυκτός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240c)]; τοὺς.. τῆς ἡ. ἄρτους δ ¯ daily, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 47.21 (2nd c.BC))]; δὶς τῆς ἡμέρης ἑκάστης twice every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; δίς τῆς ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 207)]; πεντάκις τῆς ἡ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 326)]; κατεσθίω.. τῆς ἡ. πένθ᾽ ἡμιμέδιμνα five every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 1.)]
II.2 _dative_, τῇδε θἠμέρᾳ,= σήμερον, (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1283; τῇ τόθ᾽ ἡ [prev. author] “El.” 1134.
II.3 _accusative_, πᾶσαν ἡ. any day, i.e. soon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111, 7.203)]; τὴν μὲν αὐτίχ᾽ ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 433)]; ὅλην τὴν ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 233)]; τρίτην ἡ. ἥκων two days after one's arrival, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.23; οὐδεμίαν ἡ. ὑπεύθυνος εἶναί φημι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.112)]; πέντε ἡμέρας during five days, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.103)]; τὰς ἡ. in the daytime, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.12)]; τὴν ἡ. daily, [LXX (LXX.Exo.29.38.)]
III with Preps., μίαν ἀν᾽ ἁμέραν on one day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.85)]; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡ. every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.198)]; ἀφ᾽ ἡμέρας τῆς νῦν from this day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 351)]; but ἀφ᾽ ἡμέρας γίνεσθαι ἐν τῷ Μουσείῳ from early in the day, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.25.11: δι᾽ ἡμέρης, _Attic dialect_ -ρας)], the whole day long, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.97, 2.173, 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 64, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 260 (Lyric poetry))]; διὰ τρίτης ἡ. every other day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; διὰ πολλῶν ἡ. at a distance of many days, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.29; δι᾽ ἡμερῶν τινων 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.3.6)]; εἰσ ἡμέραν yearly, [LXX (LXX.Judg.17.10)]; ἐν ἡμέρῃ in a single day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 377; ἐνἡ. μιᾷ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 615)]; τῇδ᾽ ἐν ἡ. [Refs ([prev. author] “OC” 1612)]; ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡ. [NT (NT.John.14.20)]; ἐν ἑστέραισιν ἡ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1666)]; ἐν ὀκτὼ ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.10)]; but ἐν τρισὶν ἡ. within three days, [NT (NT.John.2.19)]; ἐξ ἡμέρας by day, οὔτε νυκτὸς οὔτ᾽ ἐξ ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 780)]; ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας day after day, [NT+4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Heniochus Comicus 5.13, LXX.Gen.39.10, NT.2Pet.2.8 (but ἐξ ἡμερῶν εἰς ἡμέρας LXX.2Ch.21.15))]; ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρην ἔχειν, ἐφ᾽ -ραν χρῆσθαι, sufficient for the day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.69; τὸ γὰρ βρότειον σπέρμ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡ. φρονεῖ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 399; τῆς ἐφ᾽ ἡ. βορᾶς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 429)]; but τοὐφ᾽ ἡμέραν day by day, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyc.” 336: with _dative_, ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ (variant{-ρης -της}))] every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.117; ὁ ἥλιος νέος ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 6)]; καθ᾽ ἡμέραν by day, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 818 (Lyric poetry))]; καθ᾽ ἡ. τὴν νῦν to-day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 3, “Aj.” 801)]; but καθ᾽ ἡ. commonly means day by day, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.84.40, etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀεί [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus] “fragment” 1120.4: with _Article_, τὸν καθ᾽ ἡ. βίον [prev. author] “OC” 1364; ἡ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀναγκαία τροφή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; τὰ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἐπιτηδεύματα [prev. author] 2.37; τὸ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀδεές [prev. author] 3.37, etc.)]; τὸ καθ᾽ ἡ. every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1126 (Lyric poetry), etc.; also τὰ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην τὴν ἡ. ἐπιτηδεύματα 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.78)]; μετ᾽ ἡμέρην in broad daylight, opposed to νυκτός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.150, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 930)]; opposed to νύκτωρ, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.77)]; μεθ᾽ ἡμέρας some days after, [LXX (LXX.Judg.15.1)]; ἡμέρα παρ᾽ ἡμέραν γιγνομένη day following on day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.72)]; but παρ᾽ ἡμέραν every other day, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.137, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 24.2; παρ᾽ ἡ. ἄρχειν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 15; καθ᾽ ἡμέραν εἰώθειν ὀργίζεσθαι, νῦν παρ᾽ ἡμέραν, εἶτα παρὰ δύο, εἶτα παρὰ τρεῖς 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.18.13)]; πρὸ ἡμέρας before day-break, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 22)]; but πρὸ ἀμερᾶν δέκα ἤ κα μέλλωντι ἀναγινώσκεν [Refs (“GDI” 5040.42 (from Crete))]; πρὸ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ εἰδυῶν Ὀκτωμβρίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 646.2 (Thisbe, 2nd c.BC))]; γίγνεται, ἔστι πρὸς ἡμέραν, towards day, near day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.6, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.14)]; also, for the day, daily, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 4.2.)]
IV as proper name, the goddess of day, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 124.)]
IV.2 see at {ἥμερος} [Refs (11.)]
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ἡμέρη [Refs (“IG” 12(5).1 (from Ios))], Doric dialect ἀμέρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work = 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies”]5(1).213.43, +others, 1390.109, 1432.25, “Test.Epict.” 4.12, “Michel” 995 A 32, etc.)], Locrian dialect ἀμάρα [Refs (“IG” 9(1).334.42)] (aspirated perhaps only in Attic dialect and West Ionic dialect, compare ἐπάμερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, etc., αὐθημερόν “IG” 7.235.18 (from Oropus))], etc.; usually unaspirated in early Attic dialect Inscrr., [Refs (“IG” 12.49.6, +others)]; aspirated in codices even in dialects: original ἀμέρα probably took aspirate from ἑσπέρα): ἡ:—day, less frequently than ἦμαρ in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἡ. ἥδε κακὸν φέρει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.541, 13.828)]; τίς νύ μοι ἡ. ἥδ; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.514; νύκτες τε καὶ ἡ. 14.93)]; μῆνές τε καὶ ἡ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (. [prev. work] 293; νοῦσοι ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ αἳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ νυκτί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 102)]; ἡ σήμερον ἡ., see at {σήμερον· ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ} or ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ at daybreak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.6, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.76; ἅμ᾽ ἡμέρῃ διαφωσκούσῃ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.86)]; ἡ. διέλαμψεν, ἐξέλαμψεν, ὑπέφαινε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 744, “Pax” 304, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.14)]; τῆς ἡ. ὀψέ late in the day, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 2.1.23.)]
2 sometimes like Epic dialect ἦμαρ, with adjectives to describe a state or time of life, ἐπίπονος ἁ. a life of misery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 654 (Lyric poetry))]; λυπρὰν ἄγειν ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 364)]; ἐχθρὰ ἡ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 540)]; παλαιὰ ἁ. old age, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 623 (but θεία ἡ. [prev. author] “fragment” 950 is uncertain reading))]; τερμία ἁ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Ant.” 1330 (Lyric poetry))]; αἱ μακραὶ ἁμέραι length of days, [Refs ([prev. author] “OC” 1216 (Lyric poetry))]; νέα ἁ. youth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 720 (Lyric poetry))]; so τῇ πρώτῃ ἡ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1389a24)]; ἐπὶ τῇ τελευταίᾳ ἡ. at the close of life,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1389b33, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1529)]; ζοὴν βλέπουσιν ἡ. look life-like, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.68.)]
3 poetry for time, ἡ. κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν ἅπαντα τἀνθρώπεια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 131; ἐς τόδ᾽ ἡμέρας [prev. author] “OC” 1138: _plural_, ἐν ἡμέραις τινός)] in the days of.., [LXX (LXX.1Ch.4.41, etc.)]; ἡ. ἀρχαῖαι[LXX (LXX.Psa.142(143).5.)]
4 birthday, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 4.41.)]
5 a fixed day, τακτὴ ἡ. [NT (NT.Act.12.21)]; ῥητὴ ἡ. [NT+1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 19; ἡ. ἔστησαν ἀρχαιρεσιῶν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.48, cf. NT.Act.17.31; ἡ. Κυρίου LXX.Joel.2.1, cf. NT.2Pet.3.12, etc.; ἡ. κρίσεως NT.Matt.10.15: so _absolutely_, ὑπὸ ἀνθρωπίνης ἡμέρας)] a human tribunal, [NT (NT.1Cor.4.3; ἡμέραι καὶ ἀγῶνες “Jahresh.” 23 “Beibl.” 93 (Pamphyl.).)]
6 in plural, age, προβεβηκὼς ἐν ταῖς ἡ. [LXX+NT (NT.Luke.1.7, cf. LXX.Gen.47.8, etc.)]
II absolutely usages,
II.1 genitive, τριῶν ἡμερέων within three days, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.3)]; ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων within a few days, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.26, etc.)]; ἄλλης ἡ. another day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 698)]; τῆς αὐτῆς ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.87; μιᾶς ἀμέρας “IG” 5(1).213.43 (Sparta, 5th c.BC))]; ἡμέρας by day, opposed to νυκτός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 65; οὔθ᾽ ἡμέρας οὔτε νυκτός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240c)]; τοὺς.. τῆς ἡ. ἄρτους δ ¯ daily, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 47.21 (2nd c.BC))]; δὶς τῆς ἡμέρης ἑκάστης twice every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; δίς τῆς ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 207)]; πεντάκις τῆς ἡ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 326)]; κατεσθίω.. τῆς ἡ. πένθ᾽ ἡμιμέδιμνα five every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 1.)]
II.2 _dative_, τῇδε θἠμέρᾳ,= σήμερον, (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1283; τῇ τόθ᾽ ἡ [prev. author] “El.” 1134.
II.3 _accusative_, πᾶσαν ἡ. any day, i.e. soon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111, 7.203)]; τὴν μὲν αὐτίχ᾽ ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 433)]; ὅλην τὴν ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 233)]; τρίτην ἡ. ἥκων two days after one's arrival, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.23; οὐδεμίαν ἡ. ὑπεύθυνος εἶναί φημι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.112)]; πέντε ἡμέρας during five days, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.103)]; τὰς ἡ. in the daytime, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.12)]; τὴν ἡ. daily, [LXX (LXX.Exo.29.38.)]
III with Preps., μίαν ἀν᾽ ἁμέραν on one day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.85)]; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡ. every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.198)]; ἀφ᾽ ἡμέρας τῆς νῦν from this day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 351)]; but ἀφ᾽ ἡμέρας γίνεσθαι ἐν τῷ Μουσείῳ from early in the day, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.25.11: δι᾽ ἡμέρης, _Attic dialect_ -ρας)], the whole day long, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.97, 2.173, 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 64, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 260 (Lyric poetry))]; διὰ τρίτης ἡ. every other day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; διὰ πολλῶν ἡ. at a distance of many days, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.29; δι᾽ ἡμερῶν τινων 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.3.6)]; εἰσ ἡμέραν yearly, [LXX (LXX.Judg.17.10)]; ἐν ἡμέρῃ in a single day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 377; ἐνἡ. μιᾷ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 615)]; τῇδ᾽ ἐν ἡ. [Refs ([prev. author] “OC” 1612)]; ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡ. [NT (NT.John.14.20)]; ἐν ἑστέραισιν ἡ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1666)]; ἐν ὀκτὼ ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.10)]; but ἐν τρισὶν ἡ. within three days, [NT (NT.John.2.19)]; ἐξ ἡμέρας by day, οὔτε νυκτὸς οὔτ᾽ ἐξ ἡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 780)]; ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας day after day, [NT+4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Heniochus Comicus 5.13, LXX.Gen.39.10, NT.2Pet.2.8 (but ἐξ ἡμερῶν εἰς ἡμέρας LXX.2Ch.21.15))]; ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρην ἔχειν, ἐφ᾽ -ραν χρῆσθαι, sufficient for the day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.69; τὸ γὰρ βρότειον σπέρμ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡ. φρονεῖ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 399; τῆς ἐφ᾽ ἡ. βορᾶς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 429)]; but τοὐφ᾽ ἡμέραν day by day, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyc.” 336: with _dative_, ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ (variant{-ρης -της}))] every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.117; ὁ ἥλιος νέος ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 6)]; καθ᾽ ἡμέραν by day, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 818 (Lyric poetry))]; καθ᾽ ἡ. τὴν νῦν to-day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 3, “Aj.” 801)]; but καθ᾽ ἡ. commonly means day by day, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.84.40, etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀεί [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus] “fragment” 1120.4: with _Article_, τὸν καθ᾽ ἡ. βίον [prev. author] “OC” 1364; ἡ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀναγκαία τροφή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; τὰ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἐπιτηδεύματα [prev. author] 2.37; τὸ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀδεές [prev. author] 3.37, etc.)]; τὸ καθ᾽ ἡ. every day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1126 (Lyric poetry), etc.; also τὰ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην τὴν ἡ. ἐπιτηδεύματα 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.78)]; μετ᾽ ἡμέρην in broad daylight, opposed to νυκτός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.150, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 930)]; opposed to νύκτωρ, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.77)]; μεθ᾽ ἡμέρας some days after, [LXX (LXX.Judg.15.1)]; ἡμέρα παρ᾽ ἡμέραν γιγνομένη day following on day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.72)]; but παρ᾽ ἡμέραν every other day, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.137, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 24.2; παρ᾽ ἡ. ἄρχειν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 15; καθ᾽ ἡμέραν εἰώθειν ὀργίζεσθαι, νῦν παρ᾽ ἡμέραν, εἶτα παρὰ δύο, εἶτα παρὰ τρεῖς 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.18.13)]; πρὸ ἡμέρας before day-break, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 22)]; but πρὸ ἀμερᾶν δέκα ἤ κα μέλλωντι ἀναγινώσκεν [Refs (“GDI” 5040.42 (from Crete))]; πρὸ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ εἰδυῶν Ὀκτωμβρίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 646.2 (Thisbe, 2nd c.BC))]; γίγνεται, ἔστι πρὸς ἡμέραν, towards day, near day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.6, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.14)]; also, for the day, daily, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 4.2.)]
IV as proper name, the goddess of day, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 124.)]
IV.2 see at {ἥμερος} [Refs (11.)]