H3119

יוֹמָם

yo.mamH:Adv

by day

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

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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.

38 occurrences

Exodus (3), Leviticus (1), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (1), Judges (1), I Samuel (1), II Samuel (1), I Kings (1), I Chronicles (1), II Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (2), Job (2), Psalms (4), Isaiah (6), Jeremiah (5), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (3)