Strong’s H3117 · Hebrew

יוֹם
yôwm
yome

Definition

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)

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to be hot;

How the KJV renders it

  • age
  • always
  • chronicals
  • continually(-ance)
  • daily
  • ((birth-)
  • each
  • to) day
  • (now a
  • two) days (agone)
  • elder
  • end
  • evening
  • (for) ever(-lasting
  • -more)
  • full
  • life
  • as (so) long as (... live)
  • (even) now
  • old
  • outlived
  • perpetually
  • presently
  • remaineth
  • required
  • season
  • since
  • space
  • then
  • (process of) time
  • as at other times
  • in trouble
  • weather
  • (as) when
  • (a
  • the
  • within a) while (that)
  • whole ( age)
  • (full) year(-ly)
  • younger

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.