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Strong H3117H3117Gיוֹם

day

One of the 6 senses of Strong H3117

Transliteration
yôm
Pronunciation
yome
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

: day/when/time/period
1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) as a division of time
1b2a) a working day, a day's journey
1c) days, lifetime (pl.)
1d) time, period (general)
1e) year
1f) temporal references
1f1) today
1f2) yesterday
1f3) tomorrow

General definition

From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm {hours}) whether literally (from sunrise to {sunset} or from one sunset to the {next}) or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated {term}) (often used adverbially): - {age} + {always} + {chronicles} continually ({-ance}) {daily} ({[birth-]} {each} to) {day} (now {a} two) days ({agone}) + {elder} X {end} + {evening} + (for) ever ({-lasting} {-more}) X {full} {life} as (so) long as (. . . {live}) (even) {now} + {old} + {outlived} + {perpetually} {presently} + {remaineth} X {required} {season} X {since} {space} {then} (process of) {time} + as at other {times} + in {trouble} {weather} (as) {when} ({a} {the} within a) while ({that}) X whole (+ {age}) (full) year ({-ly}) + younger.

In the Bible

Strong H3117G appears in 1,621 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • day1,400
  • time52
  • pass49
  • chronicle37
  • daily10
  • long9
  • when8
  • while7
  • full6
  • let4
  • be3
  • come3

First verses

  1. Genesis 1:5
    And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
  2. Genesis 1:8
    And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
  3. Genesis 1:13
    And the evening and the morning were the third day.
  4. Genesis 1:14
    And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
  5. Genesis 1:16
    And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
  6. Genesis 1:18
    And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
  7. Genesis 1:19
    And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
  8. Genesis 1:23
    And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
  9. Genesis 1:31
    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  10. Genesis 2:2
    And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
  11. Genesis 2:3
    And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  12. Genesis 2:4
    These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
  13. Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
  14. Genesis 3:5
    For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
  15. Genesis 3:8
    And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
  16. Genesis 3:14
    And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
  17. Genesis 3:17
    And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
  18. Genesis 4:3
    And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
  19. Genesis 4:14
    Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
  20. Genesis 5:1
    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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