Strong H3117H3117Hיוֹם

day: old

One of the 6 senses of Strong H3117

Transliteration
yôm
Pronunciation
yome
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

: old/(full/many)[days]
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 H3117H appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • day2
  • elder2
  • young1

First verses

  1. Job 12:12
    With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
  2. Job 15:10
    With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
  3. Job 30:1
    But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
  4. Job 32:4
    Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
  5. Jeremiah 6:11
    Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
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