Vocabulary Form
ἡμέρα, -ας, ἡ
Definition

day

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ἡμερα
Frequency
389
GK
2465
Cognates

Ephemeral (ejfhvmeroV) means that it lasts only one day, is short-lived.

Mnemonics

Hey marry me today!

Mnemonic Singing

Come and reign over us Ancient of Days.

Song

Biblical Concordance

1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day (hēmera | ἡμέρα | nom sg fem) to take you by surprise like a thief;
1 Thessalonians 5:5 for you are all sons of light, sons of the day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem). We do not belong to night or darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 but let us who belong to the daylight (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem) stay sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.
2 Thessalonians 1:10 on that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at by all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
2 Thessalonians 2:2 not to be quickly shaken out of your wits or disturbed, either by a prophecy or by a spoken word or by a letter purporting to come from us, to the effect that the day (hēmera | ἡμέρα | nom sg fem) of the Lord is already here.
2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead we kept working night and day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem) with toil and hardship, so we would not be a burden to any of you,
1 Timothy 5:5 But the true widow, who has been left totally alone, has set her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem).
2 Timothy 1:3 I continually thank God, whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clean conscience, as unceasingly I remember you in my prayers night and day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem),
2 Timothy 1:12 for which reason even I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have trusted and I am fully convinced that he is able to guard my deposit until that day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem).
2 Timothy 1:18 May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem). And the services he performed in Ephesus you know very well.
2 Timothy 3:1 But take note of this, that in the last days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) there will be difficult times;
2 Timothy 4:8 Now is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that Day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem), but not only to me but also to everyone who has loved his appearing.
Hebrews 1:2 but in these final days (hēmerōn | ἡμερῶν | gen pl fem) he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom he also created the material universe.
Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, on the day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) of testing in the wilderness
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another every day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem), as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 4:4 For somewhere he has spoken of the seventh day in this manner: “And God rested on the seventh day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) from all his works.”
Hebrews 4:7 God again ordains a certain day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) — “today” — saying through David, after so long a time, just as it has been said before, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another time (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem) after that.
Hebrews 5:7 In the days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his godly fear.
Hebrews 7:3 He is without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days (hēmerōn | ἡμερῶν | gen pl fem) nor end of life; but like the Son of God he continues a priest for all time.
Hebrews 7:27 He has no need to offer up daily sacrifices, like those other high priests, first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, for this he did once for all when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault, God says to them, “Behold, days (hēmerai | ἡμέραι | nom pl fem) are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Hebrews 8:9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I abandoned them, says the Lord.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem), declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
Hebrews 10:11 Furthermore, every priest stands day after day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) performing his religious duties, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.