Yom () is a Biblical Hebrew word which occurs in the Hebrew Bible. The word is a generic term meaning "a period of time". In both Modern and Biblical Hebrew it is usually translated as a specific period of time (such as "day", "evening", "lifetime", or "year") based on context.
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Yom () is a Biblical Hebrew word which occurs in the Hebrew Bible. The word is a generic term meaning "a period of time". In both Modern and Biblical Hebrew it is usually translated as a specific period of time (such as "day", "evening", "lifetime", or "year") based on context.
==Overview== Although yom is commonly rendered as "day" in English translations, the word is a generic term for a period of time and can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans based on context: A time period of unspecified length A point of time (a specific day) A time period of a half or whole day: Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness) Sunrise to sunset Sunset to next sunset A general term for time (as in "days of our lives") A year (in the plural use, as in "lived a lot of days") A long, but finite, span of time