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)

In the King James Version: 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.

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to be hot;

Where it is used

• Esther 5:4 “If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
• Esther 5:9 That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.
• Esther 6:1 That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
• Esther 7:2 and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
• Esther 8:1 That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
• Esther 8:12 The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
• Esther 8:13 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
• Esther 8:17 In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
• Esther 9:1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
• Esther 9:11 On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
• Esther 9:13 Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
• Esther 9:15 On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
• Esther 9:17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
• Esther 9:18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
• Esther 9:19 This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
• Esther 9:21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
• Esther 9:22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
• Esther 9:26 Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
• Esther 9:27 the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
• Esther 9:28 These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
• Esther 9:31 in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
• Esther 10:2 And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
• Job 1:4 Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
• Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
• Job 1:6 One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
• Job 1:13 One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
• Job 2:1 On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
• Job 2:13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
• Job 3:1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
• Job 3:3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
• Job 3:4 If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
• Job 3:5 May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
• Job 3:6 If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
• Job 3:8 May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
• Job 7:1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
• Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
• Job 7:16 I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• Job 8:9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
• Job 9:25 My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
• Job 10:5 Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
• Job 10:20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
• Job 12:12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
• Job 14:1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Job 14:5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
• Job 14:6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
• Job 14:14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
• Job 15:10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.
• Job 15:20 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
• Job 15:23 He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
• Job 15:32 It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
• Job 17:1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
• Job 17:11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
• Job 17:12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
• Job 18:20 Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
• Job 20:28 The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
• Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
• Job 21:30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
• Job 23:2 “Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
• Job 24:1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
• Job 27:6 I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.