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G2250 is the ordinary noun for a day and, in context, can refer to a period of time or a specifically identified day. The governed witness contains 392 primary forms in 369 verses, so most uses serve narrative sequence, duration, travel, recurring activity, or ordinary daily life.
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G2250 is the ordinary noun for a day and, in context, can refer to a period of time or a specifically identified day. The governed witness contains 392 primary forms in 369 verses, so most uses serve narrative sequence, duration, travel, recurring activity, or ordinary daily life.
The BSB source-word alignment has 389 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include day (153), days (118), [the] day (20), . . . (16), time (11).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 2:1. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (94), Luke (83), Matthew (45), John (31).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
G2250 is the ordinary noun for a day and, in context, can refer to a period of time or a specifically identified day. The governed witness contains 392 primary forms in 369 verses, so most uses serve narrative sequence, duration, travel, recurring activity, or ordinary daily life. Particular phrases carry greater theological weight. Jesus speaks of the last day in resurrection promises.
Acts names a day appointed for judgment. Paul confesses Christ's resurrection on the third day. Hebrews urges daily exhortation while it is called today, and 2 Peter speaks of the Day of the Lord while correcting human measurements of divine patience. The noun does not make every occurrence symbolic, prophetic, or eschatological. Modifiers, prepositions, idioms, and the passage's argument determine which day or time is meant.
G2250 spans ordinary calendar and duration language as well as named theological phrases such as the third day, the last day, an appointed judgment day, and the Day of the Lord. The noun remains common; each phrase supplies its force.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.
An ordinary day boundary supports Jesus' instruction about anxiety and present faithfulness.
For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
The phrase “last day” belongs to Jesus' promise of resurrection for believers.
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
The day is appointed for righteous judgment and tied to the resurrection of the appointed Judge.
Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
The phrase describes Paul's persistent pastoral warning over an extended period.
That He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
The third-day phrase belongs to the received gospel tradition about Christ's burial and resurrection.
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
Day-by-day exhortation serves communal perseverance against hardening.
Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Peter corrects impatient human evaluation before explaining the Lord's patience.
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
The named Day of the Lord belongs to Peter's judgment warning and call to holy conduct.
Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
Day and the absence of night function inside John's vision of the new Jerusalem.
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Greek word. day
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 389 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 8 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
ἡμέρα is built from these roots:
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G2250 reminds teachers that a common word can serve both ordinary chronology and weighty theological phrases. Most of its 392 forms simply locate events, mark duration, or describe recurring life. That ordinary work should not be erased by turning every day into a symbol. At the same time, modifiers matter. The third day belongs to the resurrection tradition, the last day to Jesus' resurrection promise, an appointed day to God's righteous judgment, and the Day of the Lord to Peter's warning and call to holiness.
Hebrews uses daily language to press mutual exhortation now. Second Peter's comparison between a day and a thousand years corrects human impatience about God's promise; it does not authorize a universal prophetic conversion chart. Faithful exposition therefore reads the noun with its modifier, preposition, idiom, speaker, and argument before moving toward doctrine or application.
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The 392 forms span all singular and plural noun cases represented in the local witness. Twenty-three verses contain more than one form. Two additional rows contain G2250 only as an alternate reading and remain outside the primary count.
Named phrases such as the Day of the Lord have an earlier scriptural history, while ordinary days structure creation, worship, work, and narrative. Specific cross-testament claims should follow an explicit phrase or citation rather than the noun alone.