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ἡμέρα

day

‘day’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G2250 Strong's Greek
hēméra Transliteration
/hay-mer'-ah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 388 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, ημερα (hēméra) means “day.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It turns up in 367 verses across 23 books, a common footprint. The word gravitates to Acts (25%), then Luke and Matthew. It first appears in Matthew 2:1. Dig into 367-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
age
Modern gloss
day
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2250 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

367
distinct verses
The word appears in 367 distinct verses.
23 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 23 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:1.
Revelation 21:25
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:25.
#47
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 47 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 367 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 174 · 47%
  • Acts 90 · 25%
  • Pauline Epistles 47 · 13%
  • General Epistles 35 · 10%
  • Revelation 21 · 6%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 367 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 174 verses · 47%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 168 verses · 46%
  • Johannine 52 verses · 14%
  • Pauline corpus 47 verses · 13%
  • Revelation 21 verses · 6%
  • Hebrews 18 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 17 verses · 5%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Day 192×, Days 153×, Daily 9×
  • American Standard Version: Day 188×, Days 156×, The 14×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Day 186×, Days 131×, Time 19×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Day 214×, Days 164×, The 20×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2250 across 376 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Day” 192×
  • “Days” 153×
  • “Daily” 9×
  • “Time” 3×
  • “Day long” 2×
  • “Day time” 2×
  • “Same day” 2×
  • “While” 2×
  • “Years” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 13 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2250 across 398 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Day” 188×
  • “Days” 156×
  • “The” 14×
  • “Daily” 5×
  • “Day long” 2×
  • “Every day” 2×
  • “Of” 2×
  • “On” 2×
  • “Very day” 2×
  • “Years” 2×

Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2250 across 368 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Day” 186×
  • “Days” 131×
  • “Time” 19×
  • “Daily” 7×
  • “Daybreak” 5×
  • “Daylight” 4×
  • “Daytime” 3×
  • “Years” 3×
  • “Day long” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 19 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2250 across 441 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Day” 214×
  • “Days” 164×
  • “The” 20×
  • “For” 16×
  • “On” 5×
  • “A” 4×
  • “Of” 3×
  • “During the days” 2×
  • “In” 2×

Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with…
  2. of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)
  3. of the last day of this present age…
  4. used of time in general, i.e. the days of his life.

Word origin

Derived from ωρα (hṓra) (G5610) — hour.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 17:43,3

Feminine (with G5610 implied) of a derivative of ἧμαι hē mai (to sit ; akin to the base of G1476 ) meaning tame that is gentle ; day that is (literally) the time space between dawn and dark or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context): - age + alway (mid-) day (by day [-ly]) + for ever judgment (day) time while years.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 9 distinct written forms G2250 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἡμέρας hēméras Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 4:2 126
ἡμέρᾳ hēméra Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 6:34 84
ἡμέραν hēméran Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 20:2 58
ἡμέραις hēmérais Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 2:1 48
ἡμέραι hēmérai Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 9:15 26
ἡμέρα hēméra Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Luke 6:13 23
ἡμερῶν hēmerō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Matthew 11:12 21
Ἡμέρας Hēméras Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Acts 16:35 1
Ἡμερῶν Hēmerō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Acts 25:13 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2250, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ημερα appears 2,052 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,732 verses in 38 books.

2,052
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1,732
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
38 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2250) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,732. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2250) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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