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יוֹם H3117
H3117 is the Hebrew word יוֹם, transliterated yôwm and said yome. The King James Version most often renders it day.
What it means
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).
Where it comes from
from an unused root meaning to be hot.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 1,694 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger.
Verses using יוֹם
The first 40 of 1745 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 1:5 · KJV
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:14 · KJV
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:
Genesis 1:16 · KJV
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.
Genesis 1:18 · KJV
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.
Genesis 2:2 · KJV
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.
Genesis 2:3 · KJV
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.
Genesis 2:4 · KJV
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,
Genesis 2:17 · KJV
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.
Genesis 3:5 · KJV
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.
Genesis 3:8 · KJV
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.
Genesis 3:14 · KJV
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:
Genesis 3:17 · KJV
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;
Genesis 4:3 · KJV
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Genesis 4:14 · KJV
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.
Genesis 5:1 · KJV
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Genesis 5:2 · KJV
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:4 · KJV
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:5 · KJV
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Genesis 5:8 · KJV
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
Genesis 5:11 · KJV
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:14 · KJV
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Genesis 5:17 · KJV
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:20 · KJV
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Genesis 5:23 · KJV
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis 5:27 · KJV
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:31 · KJV
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Genesis 6:3 · KJV
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4 · KJV
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 7:4 · KJV
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:10 · KJV
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11 · KJV
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:12 · KJV
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:13 · KJV
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Genesis 7:17 · KJV
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis 8:3 · KJV
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis 8:4 · KJV
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:6 · KJV
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis 8:10 · KJV
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
Genesis 8:12 · KJV
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Genesis 8:14 · KJV
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Common questions
What does Strong's H3117 mean?
H3117 is the Hebrew word יוֹם (yôwm), meaning 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).
How is H3117 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it day (945 times), days (530 times), time (38 times), daily (38 times), chronicles (37 times), among others.
How many times does H3117 appear in the Bible?
יוֹם (yôwm) is tagged in 1745 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H3117 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to be hot.
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