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title: יוֹמָם — daytime · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יוֹמָם (3119), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 51 times: daytime. BDB 1906: subst. adv. daytime, by day subst. adv. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יוֹמָם

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«יוֹמָם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **daytime** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 51 times · **Key:** 3119 · **BDB:** יוֹמָם

### Glosses

by.day (47); daytime (2); of.daytime (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

daytime [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3119/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

subst. adv. daytime, by day subst. adv. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3119/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** 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)— 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. 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.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 31 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יוֹמָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3119/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 91:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.5/)

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לֹא־תִ֭ירָא מִפַּ֣חַד לָ֑יְלָה מֵ֝חֵ֗ץ יָע֥וּף יוֹמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.be.afraid from.\[the\] dread of.night from an.arrow \[which\].it.will.fly by.day

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;

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[Job 5:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.14/)

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יוֹמָ֥ם יְפַגְּשׁוּ־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* by.day they.meet darkness and like (the) night they.grope at (the) noon(s)

*JPS 1917:* They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

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