Lexical Definition

‎יוֹמָם‎ yôwmâm (yo-mawm') by day ^H:Adv
from ‎יוֹם‎

daily, (by, in the) day(-time).

• daily

adv
1) by day, in the daytime
subst
2) daytime

See Greek: ἡμέρα

Extended Information

• adv
• subst

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יוֺמָם‎₅₁ substantive and adverb daytime, by day (compare Aramaic ‎יְמָמָא‎ day (as opposed to night); ᵑ7 ‎יֵמָם‎ by day; perhaps Phoenician ‎ימם‎ (in dates, before number), CIS^{I. i. 10. 1} (see note); so Nö^{ZDMG 1886, 721}: on ‎םָ֯‎ see below ‎חִנָּם‎) —

1. substantive daytime (rare) Jer 15:9 ‎בעוד יומם‎ while it is yet daytime, Jer 33:20 b ‎לְבִלְתִּי הֱיוֺת יומם ולילה‎ daytime and night, vJer 33:25 ‎ולילה‎ ‎׳‎‎בְּרִיתִי י‎ (? read ‎יוֺם‎ as vJer 33:20 a); Ezek 30:16 ‎צָרֵי יוֺמָם‎ foes of daytime, i.e. coming by day (compare Jer 15:8 but text apparently defective, see ᵐ5 Sm); once (late) ‎בְּיוֺמָם‎ (compare ᵑ7 ‎בְּיֵמָם‎ 1Sam 25:16; Job 5:14), Neh 9:19 (varied from Exod 13:21; Deut 1:33 ‎יומם‎). — Num 9:21 the sense required is (during) a day and a night; read probably ‎יוֺם‎

2. adverb in the daytime, by day, Num 10:34; Job 24:16 (but see ‎חִתֵּם‎), Isa 4:6; Ezek 12:3; Ezek 12:4; Ezek 12:7 mostly with ‎לַיְלָה‎, and then often in poetry = continually: so ‎יוֺמָם וָלַיְלָה‎ Exod 13:21; Josh 1:8; 1Kgs 8:59; Ps 1:2; Ps 32:4 +, ‎לַיְלָה וְיוֺמָם‎ Deut 28:66; Isa 34:10; Jer 14:17, in parallel clauses (especially in poetry) 2Sam 21:10; Isa 21:8; Jer 31:35; Ps 22:3*; Ps 42:9*; Ps 91:5; Ps 121:6 +. Ps 13:3* by day yields a lame sense: either add ‎וָלַיְלָה‎ (ᵐ5 Del Gr Ch), or read ‎(יוֺם יוֺם) יֹם יֹם‎ Lag^{Nov.Psalt.Gr.Ed.Spec.13} Now.

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