Yom (Hebrew: ????) is a Biblical Hebrew word which occurs in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament). The Arabic equivalent is "yawm" or "y?m" written as ???.
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Overview
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom has several literal definitions:
- Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
- General term for time
- Point of time
- Sunrise to sunset
- Sunset to next sunset
- A year (in the plural; I Sam 27:7; Ex 13:10, etc.)
- Time period of unspecified length.
- A long, but finite span of time - age - epoch - season.
Biblical Hebrew has a limited vocabulary, with fewer words compared to other languages, like English (which has the largest). This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context. Strong's Lexicon yom is Hebrew #3117 ???? The word Yom's root meaning is to be hot as the warm hours of a day.
Thus "yom", in its context, is sometimes translated as: "time" (Gen 4:3, Is. 30:8); "year" (I Kings 1:1, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Amos 4:4); "age" (Gen 18:11, 24:1 and 47:28; Joshua 23:1 and 23:2); "always" (Deuteronomy 5:29, 6:24 and 14:23, and in 2 Chronicles 18:7); "season" (Genesis 40:4, Joshua 24:7, 2 Chronicles 15:3); epoch or 24-hour day (Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31) - see "Creationism", below.
Yom relates to the concept of time. Yom is not just for day, days, but for time in general. How yom is translated depends on the context of its use with other words in the sentence around it, using hermeneutics.
The word day is used somewhat the same way in the English language, examples: "In my grandfather's day, cars did not go very fast" or "In the day of the dinosaurs there were not many mammals."
The word Yom is used in the name of various Jewish feast days; as, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; Yom teruah (lit., day of shouting) the Feast of Trumpets.
Yom is also used in each of the days of the week in the Hebrew calendar.
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See also
- Jewish
- Yom Tov, in plural Yamim Tovim, literally the Good Day(s), the Jewish holidays
- Yom tov sheni shel galuyot The second festival day in the Diaspora
- Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement
- Yom Kippur Katan Minor Day of Atonement
- Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day
- Yom HaShoah, full name Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day
- Yom Hazikaron Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldier
- Yom Yerushalayim Jerusalem Day
- The Day of the Lord Events of the end times.
- Creationism
- Young Earth creationism Yom has various meanings depending on its context, but the consecutive days in Genesis 1 mean 24 hours
- Gap creationism Yom is 24 hours, but there are gaps of time.
- Old Earth creationism Yom is time span.
- Day-age creationism Yom is time span.
- Progressive creationism Yom is time span, but there are gaps of time
- Evolutionary creationism (or Theistic evolution, making theory of evolution and Bible compatible): the literal interpretation of Yom not as crucial.
- Geology
- Age of the Earth
Notes
References
Further reading
- Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, pages 51-53, 60-61, Baker 1982
- Norman L. Geisler, Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, page 271, Zondervan 1999
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