G2250 — ἡμέρα (hēméra)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: G2250
Original: ἡμέρα
Transliteration: hēméra
Pronunciation: hay-mer'-ah
Part of Speech: Feminine noun
Occurrences: 365 unique verses (388 tokens) across 23 NT books
First Occurrence: Mat 2:1 — "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king..."
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

Feminine noun; from a derivative of ἧμαι (hēmai, "to sit"). A day — the period from sunrise to sunset (as distinct from night), or a civil/legal day of 24 hours, or figuratively an era, epoch, or appointed time. The word covers literal daylight hours, calendar days, and extended periods ("the days of Noah," "the last days").

Semantic Domains¶

Louw-Nida: - Domain 067 — Time - Domain 067.009 — Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour - Other words: ἀλεκτοροφωνία (G0219), ἐνιαυτός (G1763), ἐπιούσιος (G1967), ὥρα (G5610), σάββατον (G4521), μήν (G3376) - Domain 067.005 — Duration of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young - Other words: αἰών (G0165), αἰώνιος (G0166), χρόνος (G5550), καιρός (G2540) - Domain 067.002 — A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time - Domain 067.008 — Indefinite Units of Time: Age, Lifetime, Interval, Period - Domain 056 — Courts and Legal Procedures (via "day of judgment" usage) - Domain 056.005 — Judge, Condemn, Acquit - Domain 014.006 — Light (daylight as physical phenomenon)

UBS Semantic Domains: - [067] Time - [014] Physical Events and States - [056] Courts and Legal Procedures

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Verses	%
day	150	41.1%
days	130	35.6%
the day	26	7.1%
daily	18	4.9%
the days	13	3.6%
a day	6	1.6%
time	3	0.8%
by day / day long / of the day / that day / those days / while / years	2 each	0.5% each
Other (1x each: age, alway, ever, judgment, etc.)	9	2.5%

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
2 Peter	10	16.4
Acts	89	8.8
Luke	79	6.9
1 Thessalonians	6	6.7
2 Thessalonians	3	6.4
2 Timothy	5	6.0
Hebrews	18	5.9
Revelation	21	5.2
Mark	26	3.8
Matthew	40	3.7
John	29	3.3
1 Peter	3	2.9
Romans	9	2.1
Colossians	2	2.1
Ephesians	3	1.9
James	2	1.9
1 Corinthians	7	1.6
2 Corinthians	4	1.6
Galatians	2	1.3
1 John	1	1.0
1 Timothy	1	0.9
Philippians	4	—
Jude	1	—

Luke-Acts dominates with 168 combined occurrences (46% of all NT uses). The highest density is 2 Peter (16.4 per 100 verses), driven by concentrated "day of judgment" and "day of the Lord" eschatological language. Absent from: 2 John, 3 John, Titus, Philemon.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Calendar/Literal Day — A Specific Date or Time Period¶

Mat 17:1 — "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John..."
Act 20:6 — "And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days"
Luk 2:21 — "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child"
Act 21:27 — "And when the seven days were almost ended"

2. Daylight Hours — Contrasted with Night¶

Jhn 9:4 — "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work"
Jhn 11:9 — "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not"
Rom 13:12–13 — "The night is far spent, the day is at hand... Let us walk honestly, as in the day"
1Th 5:5 — "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day"

3. Eschatological "Day" — Day of Judgment / Day of the Lord¶

Mat 10:15 — "It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment"
Act 2:20 — "before that great and notable day of the Lord come"
2Pe 3:10 — "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night"
Rev 6:17 — "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
1Co 3:13 — "for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire"

4. "Last Days" — Prophetic/Eschatological Era¶

Act 2:17 — "it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh"
2Ti 3:1 — "in the last days perilous times shall come"
Heb 1:2 — "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son"
2Pe 3:3 — "there shall come in the last days scoffers"

5. Historical Epoch — "In the Days of..." (Period Formula)¶

Mat 2:1 — "in the days of Herod the king"
Luk 4:25 — "many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias"
Mat 24:37 — "as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be"
Act 5:36–37 — "before these days rose up Theudas... Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing"

6. The Resurrection Formula — "The Third Day"¶

Mat 16:21 — "the third day he shall be raised again"
Luk 24:46 — "thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day"
1Co 15:4 — "he rose again the third day according to the scriptures"
Act 10:40 — "Him God raised up the third day"

7. The "Last Day" — Resurrection/Final Judgment (Johannine)¶

Jhn 6:39 — "I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day"
Jhn 6:44 — "I will raise him up at the last day"
Jhn 11:24 — "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day"
Jhn 12:48 — "the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day"

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
νύξ (nyx)	G3571	28x	"day and night" merism — continuous action (Act 26:7, Rev 4:8, Rev 14:11)
πᾶς (pas)	G3956	37x	"all the days" / "every day" — totality/perpetuity (Mat 28:20, Luk 1:75)
τρεῖς (treis)	G5140	22x	"three days" — resurrection timeline, Jonah typology (Mat 12:40, Jhn 2:19)
τρίτος (tritos)	G5154	17x	"the third day" — resurrection formula (Mat 16:21, 1Co 15:4)
ἔρχομαι (erchomai)	G2064	37x	"the days come" / "in that day" — eschatological approach (Luk 17:22, Heb 8:8)
γίνομαι (ginomai)	G1096	55x	Temporal narrative: "it came to pass in those days" (Luk 2:1, Act 9:37)
κύριος (kyrios)	G2962	30x	"the day of the Lord" — eschatological title (1Th 5:2, 2Pe 3:10)
ἀνίστημι (anistēmi)	G0450	19x	"rise/raise the third day" — resurrection (Mar 8:31, Luk 18:33)
υἱός (huios)	G5207	21x	"the days of the Son of man" — eschatological (Luk 17:22, 26)
θεός (theos)	G2316	40x	"the day of God" / "God... in those days" (2Pe 3:12, Act 2:17)

Synonyms¶

No direct synonyms were returned by search_relationships.py for G2250.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms were returned by search_relationships.py for G2250.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
σήμερον (sēmeron)	G4594	"day" (4x vs 150x)	sēmeron = specifically "today, this very day" (adverb); hēméra = any day generically
καιρός (kairos)	G2540	"time" (3x vs 39x)	kairos = the decisive/appointed moment; hēméra = a day or era as temporal container
χρόνος (chronos)	G5550	"time" (3x vs 22x)	chronos = duration/elapsed time; hēméra = a defined unit or epoch
αἰών (aiōn)	G0165	"ever" (1x vs 100x)	aiōn = an age/eternity; hēméra = a bounded day or period within an age

Domain Neighbors (Louw-Nida 067.009 — Definite Units of Time)¶

Word	Strong's	Total vv	Primary Translation	Key Difference
ὥρα (hōra)	G5610	99	hour	Smaller unit — an hour within the day
σάββατον (sabbaton)	G4521	58	sabbath, week	Specific day (seventh) or week as time unit
μήν (mēn)	G3376	18	month	Larger unit — a month of days
ἐνιαυτός (eniautos)	G1763	14	year	Larger unit — a full year
ἔτος (etos)	G2094	39	year	Elapsed years (age or duration)

Hebrew Source (via LXX)¶

Hebrew Source	Strong's	Co-occurrence	PMI Score	Notes
יוֹם (yôwm)	H3117	1485x	25.24	Primary — covers all semantic categories
יוֹמָם (yôwmâm)	H3119	44x	13.84	"by day" / "daily" contexts
שְׁבִיעִי (shᵉbîyʻîy)	H7637	55x	11.96	"seventh [day]" — sabbath-adjacent
לַיִל (layil)	H3915	88x	11.11	"day and night" merisms (yom+layil → hemera+nyx)
יוֹם (yôwm, Aramaic)	H3118	14x	9.83	Aramaic cognate also bridged
חַג (chag)	H2282	29x	9.55	Festival/feast day contexts
מִקְרָא (miqraʼ)	H4744	16x	9.27	"holy convocation" — appointed assembly day
שַׁבָּת (shabbâth)	H7676	36x	8.75	Sabbath day — sabbaton inherits this directly

The dominant Hebrew source is H3117 (yôwm) with 1,485 LXX co-occurrences and a PMI score of 25.24, making this the highest-confidence one-to-one Hebrew→Greek bridge in the "day/time" vocabulary. The LXX rendered approximately 77% of yôwm occurrences with ἡμέρα.