What is the Strong's number for Yowm?

The Strong's number for Yowm (יוֹם) is H3117. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Yowm (Strong’s H3117): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Yowm mean?

Yowm (יוֹם, Strong's H3117) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb). The King James Bible translates it as age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, × required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger.

Yowm (יוֹם) is the Hebrew word numbered H3117 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb). In the King James Bible it is translated age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily.

יוֹם

yôwm · Hebrew

Strong’s H3117 · yome

Original wordיוֹם
Transliterationyôwm
Pronunciationyome
Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
Strong’s numberH3117
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)

Derivation. from an unused root meaning to be hot;

How the King James Bible translates it

age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, × required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Yowm appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yowm (H3117) stands behind 2,209 English renderings in 1,880 verses across 39 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (166), Genesis (150), 1 Samuel (147).

How the King James Bible renders Yowm, by count

day1,276 of 2,209 (58 percent)
days690 of 2,209 (31 percent)
time59 of 2,209 (3 percent)
daily32 of 2,209 (1 percent)
ever17 of 2,209 (1 percent)
when11 of 2,209 (0 percent)

Three places to read Yowm

Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Judges 14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
Psalms 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yowm in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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