Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
day
Usage: 1) day 2) day always refers to a twenty-four hour period when the word is modified by a definite or cardinal number
Yom means “time” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3118 — makrochronios (“live long”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3118 יוֹם (yowm) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yowm (yome) n-m. 1. a day [(Aramaic) corresponding to H3117] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include days, day, and time. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yowm (yome) n-m. 1. a day [(Aramaic) corresponding to H3117] KJV: day (by day), time. Root(s): H3117
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day
Usage: 1) day 2) day always refers to a twenty-four hour period when the word is modified by a definite or cardinal number
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yowm, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3118.
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3118, grouped by book.
Yom (Strong's H3118) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "time". yowm (yome) n-m. 1. a day [(Aramaic) corresponding to H3117]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H3118 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3118 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as days, day, and time. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.