יוֹמָם
daytime
‘daytime’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adverb 50 times (98%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 51 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3119 appears — 50 distinct verses across 18 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 13:21 יוֹמָ֜ם יוֹמָ֥ם adv adv Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 13:22 יוֹמָ֔ם adv the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
- Exodus 40:38 יוֹמָ֔ם adv For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 3 verses
- Numbers 9:21 יוֹמָ֣ם adv Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
- Numbers 10:34 יוֹמָ֑ם adv The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
- Numbers 14:14 יוֹמָ֔ם adv and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:33 יוֹמָֽם adv who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
- Deuteronomy 28:66 וְ/יוֹמָ֔ם conj + adv and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 4 verses
- Nehemiah 1:6 יוֹמָ֣ם adv Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:
- Nehemiah 4:9 יוֹמָ֥ם adv But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
- Nehemiah 9:12 יוֹמָ֑ם adv Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
- Nehemiah 9:19 בְּ/יוֹמָם֙ prep + n c ms yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
Job 2 verses
Psalms 10 verses
- Psalms 1:2 יוֹמָ֥ם adv But his delight is in Yahweh's law; On his law he meditates day and night.
- Psalms 13:2 יוֹמָ֑ם adv How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
- Psalms 22:2 י֭וֹמָם adv My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
- Psalms 32:4 יוֹמָ֣ם adv For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 42:3 יוֹמָ֣ם adv My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Psalms 42:8 יוֹמָ֤ם adv Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 55:10 יוֹמָ֤ם adv Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
- Psalms 78:14 יוֹמָ֑ם adv In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, And all night with a light of fire.
- Psalms 91:5 יוֹמָֽם adv You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;
- Psalms 121:6 יוֹמָ֗ם adv The sun will not harm you by day, Nor the moon by night.
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 4:5 יוֹמָם֙ adv Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
- Isaiah 4:6 יוֹמָ֖ם adv There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 21:8 יוֹמָ֔ם adv He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
- Isaiah 34:10 וְ/יוֹמָם֙ conj + adv It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
- Isaiah 60:11 יוֹמָ֥ם adv Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
- Isaiah 60:19 יוֹמָ֔ם adv The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
Jeremiah 7 verses
- Jeremiah 9:1 יוֹמָ֣ם adv Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jeremiah 14:17 וְ/יוֹמָ֖ם conj + adv You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
- Jeremiah 15:9 יוֹמָ֖ם adv She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 16:13 יוֹמָ֣ם adv therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.
- Jeremiah 31:35 יוֹמָ֔ם adv Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:
- Jeremiah 33:20 יֽוֹמָם adv Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- Jeremiah 33:25 יוֹמָ֣ם adv Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 4 verses
- Ezekiel 12:3 יוֹמָ֖ם adv Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:4 יוֹמָ֖ם adv You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
- Ezekiel 12:7 יוֹמָ֔ם adv I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
- Ezekiel 30:16 יוֹמָֽם adv I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
יומם — transliterated yôwmâm — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “daytime.” Debuting at Exodus 13:21, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 50 verses across 18 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Related forms include יום, יום and ים. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3119 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 50
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 50 distinct verses.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #723
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 723 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 50 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 50 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 22 verses · 44%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 19 verses · 38%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 18%
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 33×, Daytime 6×, Daily 2×
- American Standard Version: Day 33×, Day-time 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Day 45×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Day 43×, By 2×, Daytime 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3119 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3119 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 H3119 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3119 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. subst. daytime (rare) Je 15:9 בעוד יומם while it is yet daytime, 33:20b לְבִלְתִּי הֱיוֹת יומם ולילה daytime and night, v 25 בְּרִיתִי י׳ ולילה (? read יוֹם as v 20a); Ez 30:16 צָרֵי יוֹמָם foes of daytime, i.e. coming by day (cf. Je 15:8; but text appar. defective, v. 𝔊 Sm); once (late) בְּיוֹמָם (cf. 𝔊 בְּיֵמָם 1 S 25:16 Jb 5:14), Ne 9:19 (varied from Ex 13:21 Dt 1:33 יומם).—Nu 9:21 the sense required is (during) a day and a night; read prob. יוֹם. e.g. Jeremiah 15:9
- 2. adv. in the daytime, by day, Nu 10:34 Jb 24:16 (but v. חִתֵּם), Is 4:6 Ez 12:3, 4, 7; mostly c. לַיְלָה, and then often poet. = continually: so יוֹמָם וָלַיְלָה Ex 13:21 Jos 1:8 1 K 8:59 ψ 1:2; 32:4 +, לַיְלָה וְיוֹמָם †Dt 28:66 Is 34:10 Je 14:17, in parallel clauses (especially in poetry) 2 S 21:10 Is 21:8 Je 31:35 ψ 22:3; 42:9; 91:5; 121:6 +. ψ 13:3 by day yields a lame sense: either add וָלַיְלָה (𝔊 Del Gr Ch), or read יֹם יֹם (יוֹם יוֹם) LagNov. Psalt. Gr. Ed. Spec, 13 Now. e.g. Numbers 10:34
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
subst. and adv. daytime, by day (cf. Aramaic יְמָמָא, ܐܻܝܡܳܡܳܐ day (as opp. to night); 𝔗 יֵמָם by day; perhaps Ph. ימם (in dates, before num.), CISI. i. 10. 1(see note); so NöZDMG 1886, 721: on ם—ָ, v. sub חִנָּם)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יום (yôwm) (H3117) — day.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H3119 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יוֹמָ֣ם | Adverb | 1 Kings 8:59 | 11 |
| יוֹמָ֔ם | Adverb | Exodus 13:22 | 8 |
| יוֹמָ֥ם | Adverb | Exodus 13:21 | 7 |
| יוֹמָ֑ם | Adverb | 1 Samuel 25:16 | 5 |
| יוֹמָ֖ם | Adverb | Ezekiel 12:3 | 5 |
| יוֹמָ֤ם | Adverb | Leviticus 8:35 | 3 |
| יוֹמָֽם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 1:33 | 3 |
| בְּ/יוֹמָם֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 9:19 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹמָ֔ם | Adverb | Deuteronomy 28:66 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹמָ֖ם | Adverb | Jeremiah 14:17 | 1 |
| וְ/יוֹמָם֙ | Adverb | Isaiah 34:10 | 1 |
| י֭וֹמָם | Adverb | Psalms 22:2 | 1 |
| יֽוֹמָם | Adverb | Jeremiah 33:20 | 1 |
| יוֹמָ֗ם | Adverb | Psalms 121:6 | 1 |
| יוֹמָ֜ם | Adverb | Exodus 13:21 | 1 |
| יוֹמָם֙ | Adverb | Isaiah 4:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3119, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 42 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 50 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 13:21
- Leviticus 8:35
- Numbers 9:21
- Deuteronomy 1:33
- Joshua 1:8
- Judges 6:27
- 1 Samuel 25:16
- 2 Samuel 21:10
- 1 Kings 8:59
- 1 Chronicles 9:33
- 2 Chronicles 6:20
- Job 5:14
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
