hēmera G2250

ἡμέρα (hēmera) means “day” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἡμέρα Greek · G2250 389 tagged occurrences in 368 verses

Pronunciation guide: hay-mer'-ah Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2250

ἡμέρα · hēmera · day

ἡμέρα, -ας, ἡ, [in LXX chiefly (very freq.) for יוֹם ;] day; 1. as distinct from night: genitive ἡμέρας, by day (WM, §30, 11), Rev.21:25; ἡ. κ. νυκτός (ν. κ. ̔ἡ.), Act.9:24, 1Th.2:9, 2Th.3:8, Rev.4:8 (BL, §36, 13); ἡμέρας μέσης, at mid-day, Act.26:13; accusative durat., τ. ἡμέρας, Luk.21:37; ὅλην τὴν ἡ., Rom.8:36; ἐν ἡμέρα, Jhn.11:9, Rom.13:13; ἡμέρας ὁδός, a day's journey, Luk.2:44; ἡ. γίνεται, Lk 4:42 22:66; κλίνει, Luk.9:12, al.; metaphorically, Jhn.9:4, Rom.13:12, 1Th.5:4, 5 8, 2Pe.1:19. 2. Of a civil day of 24 hours, incl. night: Mat.6:34, Mrk.6:21, Luk.13:14, al.; τρίτῃ ἡ., Mat.16:21; ἡμέρᾳ κ. ἡ. (cf. יוֹם בְּיוֹם, Est.3:4), 2Co.4:16; ὅλην τ. ἡ., Rom.8:36 10:21; pl., Jhn.2:12, Act.9:19, al.; ἡ. τῶν ἀζύμων, Act.12:3; τ. σαββάτου, Luk.13:14, 16; ἡ κυριάκη ἡ., Rev.1:10. 3. In Messianic sense, of the last day: ἡ ἡ. (ἐκείνη, τ. κυρίου, etc.), Mat.7:22, Luk.6:23, Rom.13:12, 1Co.1:8, 1Th.5:2, 2Th.2:2, 2Pe.3:10, al; by meton., as compared with the divine judgment on that day, ἡ. ἀνθρωπίνη, of a human tribunal, 1Co.4:3 (EV, man's judgment). 4. As in Heb. (also in Gk. writers; Bl, §46, 9; M, Pr., 81), of time in general: Jhn.8:56 14:20, 2Co.6:2, Eph.6:13, 2Pe.3:18; pl. Act.15:7, Eph.5:16, Heb.10:32; πᾶσας τὰς ἡ. (cf. כָּל הַיָּמִים, Deu.4:40, al.; MM, Exp., xv), Mat.28:20; ἐλεύσονται ἡ. ὅταν (ὅτε), Mat.9:15, Mrk.2:20, Luk.5:35 17:22; αἱ ἡ., with genitive of person(s) (Gen.26:1, al.), Mat.2:1, Luk.1:5, Act.7:45, 1Pe.3:20; ἀρχ̀ ἡμερῶν, Heb.7:3. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

a day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

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How translators render G2250

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
day	153
days	118
the day	20
time	11
daily	7
the time	7
the days	5
a day	4
daylight	4
day long	3
daybreak	3
days will be	3
years	3
at daybreak	2
day on	2
daytime	2
vvv	2
a certain day	1
a few days	1
a special day	1
at the end of the day	1
broad daylight	1
court	1
date	1
day after day	1
day alike	1
day as	1
days when	1
feast	1
for a day	1
is the day	1
of days	1
of the day	1
special days	1
the daytime	1
the others	1
these days	1
time there	1
today	1
when	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
day	123
days	112
the day	49
the days	35
the	13
daily	8
a day	7
of the day	6
those days	4
in a day	2
of	2
of the days	2
that day	2
time	2
while	2
years	2
a days	1
an	1
another	1
at midday	1
by day	1
day long	1
even unto	1
ever	1
in the day	1
in the day time	1
judgment	1
of days	1
of the	1
on the sabbath	1
one day	1
the day long	1
the day time	1
the same day	1
the time	1
unto the day	1

Verses containing G2250

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Acts 25:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Since they were staying several days, Festus laid out Paul’s case before the king: “There is a certain man whom Felix left in prison.
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Acts 26:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.
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Acts 26:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
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Acts 26:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
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Acts 27:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
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Acts 27:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
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Acts 27:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
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Acts 27:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.
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Acts 27:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they sighted a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
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Acts 28:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
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Acts 28:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
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Acts 28:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.
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Acts 28:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.
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Acts 28:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
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Acts 28:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
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Romans 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Romans 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
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Romans 8:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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Romans 10:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
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Romans 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
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Romans 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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Romans 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
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Romans 14:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences
One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Romans 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
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1 Corinthians 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
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1 Corinthians 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
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1 Corinthians 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
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1 Corinthians 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
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1 Corinthians 15:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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2 Corinthians 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
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2 Corinthians 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
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2 Corinthians 4:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
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2 Corinthians 6:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
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2 Corinthians 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
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Galatians 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.
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Galatians 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
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Ephesians 4:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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Ephesians 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Ephesians 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.
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Philippians 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,
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Philippians 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
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Philippians 1:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
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Philippians 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
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Colossians 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
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Colossians 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
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1 Thessalonians 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
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1 Thessalonians 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith.
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1 Thessalonians 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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