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

Acts 1:2 until the day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem) when, having given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen, he was taken up;
Acts 1:3 to whom also he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, being seen by them over a period of forty days (hēmerōn | ἡμερῶν | gen pl fem) and telling them what concerns the kingdom of God.
Acts 1:5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem) from now.”
Acts 1:15 And in those days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (a crowd of people, about a hundred and twenty, had gathered together), and said,
Acts 1:22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem) on which he was taken up from us — that one of these become with us a witness of his resurrection.”
Acts 2:1 When the day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in the same place.
Acts 2:15 For these men are not, as you suppose, drunk, since it is only the third hour of the day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem).
Acts 2:17 ‘And it will be in the last days,’ (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) declares God, ‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:18 Even on my male servants and on my female servants in those days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
Acts 2:20 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and glorious day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) of the Lord.
Acts 2:29 My brothers, I can speak to you confidently about the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried and his tomb is with us to this day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem).
Acts 2:41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:46 And every day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem), they continued to gather together in the temple, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with joy and simplicity of heart,
Acts 2:47 praising God, and finding favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) those who were being saved.
Acts 3:2 And a man lame from the womb of his mother was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple called the “Beautiful Gate” to ask alms from those entering into the temple.
Acts 3:24 And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem).
Acts 5:36 For before these days (hēmerōn | ἡμερῶν | gen pl fem) there rose up Theudas, saying that he himself was someone, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all, as many as followed him, were dispersed, and the movement came to nothing.
Acts 5:37 After him rose up Judas the Galilean, in the days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) of the census and mislead people, so that they followed him. He too perished, and all, as many as followed him, were scattered.
Acts 5:42 And every day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem), both in the temple and at home, they did not stop teaching and preaching Jesus the Christ.
Acts 6:1 Now in these days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) when the number of the disciples was increasing, there was a complaint by the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.
Acts 7:8 And he gave him a covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem); and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7:26 On the following day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them to be at peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you hurting one another?’
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days (hēmerais | ἡμέραις | dat pl fem) and offered a sacrifice to the idol and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
Acts 7:45 And when our fathers received it in return, they brought it in with Joshua in taking possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days (hēmerōn | ἡμερῶν | gen pl fem) of David,
Acts 8:1 Now Saul was in agreement with his execution. There arose on that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.