Meaning of “day”
Day — The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). "The heat of the day" (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o'clock, and "the cool of the day" just before sunset (Gen. 3:8). Before the Captivity the Jews divided the night into three watches, (1) from sunset to midnight (Lam. 2:19); (2) from midnight till the cock-crowing (Judg. 7:19); and (3) from the cock-crowing till sunrise (Ex. 14:24). In the New Testament the division of the Greeks and Romans into four watches was adopted (Mark 13:35). (See WATCHES »T0003789.) The division of the day by hours is first mentioned in Dan. 3:6, 15; 4:19; 5:5. This mode of reckoning was borrowed from the Chaldeans. The reckoning of twelve hours was from sunrise to sunset, and accordingly the hours were of variable length (John 11:9). The word "day" sometimes signifies an indefinite time (Gen. 2:4; Isa. 22:5; Heb. 3:8, etc.). In Job 3:1 it denotes a birthday, and in Isa. 2:12, Acts 17:31, and 2 Tim. 1:18, the great day of final judgment. Ancient of Days — an expression applied to Jehovah three times in the vision of Daniel (7:9, 13, 22) in the sense of eternal. In contrast with all earthly kings, his days are past reckoning. Atonement, Day of — the great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev. 16:3-10; 23:26-32; and Num. 29:7-11. It was kept on the tenth day of the month Tisri, i.e., five days before the feast of Tabernacles, and lasted from sunset to sunset. (See AZAZEL »T0000374.) Birth-day — The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebration of birth-days among the Jews. On the occasion of Herod's birth-day John the Baptist was beheaded (Matt. 14:6). Day's journey — The usual length of a day's journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is about 25 or 30 miles. The "three days' journey" mentioned in Ex. 3:18 is simply a journey which would occupy three days in going and returning. Daysman — an umpire or arbiter or judge (Job 9:33). This word is formed from the Latin diem dicere, i.e., to fix a day for hearing a cause. Such an one is empowered by mutual consent to decide the cause, and to "lay his hand", i.e., to impose his authority, on both, and enforce his sentence. Dayspring — (Job 38:12; Luke 1:78), the dawn of the morning; daybreak. (Comp. Isa. 60:1, 2; Mal. 4:2; Rev. 22:16.) Daystar — which precedes and accompanies the sun-rising. It is found only in 2 Pet. 1:19, where it denotes the manifestation of Christ to the soul, imparting spiritual light and comfort. He is the "bright and morning star" of Rev. 2:28; 22:16. (Comp. Num. 24:17.) Jezreel, Day of — the time predicted for the execution of vengeance for the deeds of blood committed there (Hos. 1:5). Lord's day — only once, in Rev. 1:10, was in the early Christian ages used to denote the first day of the week, which commemorated the Lord's resurrection. There is every reason to conclude that John thus used the name. (See SABBATH »T0003170.) Sabbath day's journey — supposed to be a distance of 2,000 cubits, or less than half-a-mile, the distance to which, according to Jewish tradition, it was allowable to travel on the Sabbath day without violating the law (Acts 1:12; comp. Ex. 16:29; Num. 35:5; Josh. 3:4).
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Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 23 — And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 19 — And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 18 — And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 16 — And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 13 — And the evening and the morning were the third day. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 8 — And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 5 — And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 17 — But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 4 — These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 3 — And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 2 — And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 14 — And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 8 — And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 5 — For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis Chapter 4 Verse 14 — Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 31 — And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 27 — And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 23 — And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 20 — And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 17 — And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 14 — And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 11 — And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 8 — And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 5 — And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 4 — And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 2 — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis Chapter 5 Verse 1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Genesis Chapter 6 Verse 4 — There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Genesis Chapter 6 Verse 3 — And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 24 — And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 17 — And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 13 — In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 12 — And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 10 — And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 14 — And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 13 — And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 12 — And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 10 — And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 6 — And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 5 — And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 4 — And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. Genesis Chapter 8 Verse 3 — And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Genesis Chapter 9 Verse 29 — And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. Genesis Chapter 10 Verse 25 — And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
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