Lexicon :: Strong's H3117 - yôm

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.

God called the expanse “sky.”[fn] Evening came and then morning: the second day.

Evening came and then morning: the third day.

God made the two great lights ​— ​the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night ​— ​as well as the stars.

to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

On the seventh[fn] day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested[fn] on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

“In fact, God knows that when[fn] you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[fn] and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

So the LORD God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,

you are cursed more than any livestock

and more than any wild animal.

You will move on your belly

and eat dust all the days of your life.

And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.

You will eat from it by means of painful labor[fn]

all the days of your life.

In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the LORD.

“Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

This is the document containing the family[fn] records of Adam.[fn] On the day that God created man,[fn] he made him in the likeness of God;

Adam lived 800 years after he fathered Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

So Seth’s life lasted 912 years; then he died.

So Enosh’s life lasted 905 years; then he died.

So Kenan’s life lasted 910 years; then he died.

So Mahalalel’s life lasted 895 years; then he died.

So Jared’s life lasted 962 years; then he died.

So Enoch’s life lasted 365 years.

So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.

So Lamech’s life lasted 777 years; then he died.

And the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain[fn] with[fn] mankind forever, because they are corrupt.[fn] Their days will be 120 years.”

“Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth.

The flood continued for forty days on the earth; the water increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.

And the water surged on the earth 150 days.

The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly.

After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.

“As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,

summer and winter, and day and night

will not cease.”

So Noah’s life lasted 950 years; then he died.

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg,[fn] for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.