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That’s why we have these discussions, to provide evidence. Unfortunately most people don’t care enough to actually investigate it.
No. That's the point you're missing.
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No. Most languages that have existed do not have writing. And symbols are not writing.
Yom has a lot of meanings, including "day", "always", "forever" and so on. Putting that prefix on a Hebrew root does not change it to a plural. As you seem to realize, "in the day" means one day. But it can also mean "in my day" in the right context. Not the one in Genesis, though. I'm no Hebrew scholar, but I'm told by someone who is, that there are infixes that would change it. Don't know much about those, however; infixes are pretty rare in English.
Then you obviously don’t know how the Hebrew language works and you’re most likely getting your information from Strong’s Concordance which doesn’t differentiate between the different usages of the word Yom. I would recommend using Biblehub because it will show the particular usage of the word that’s being used in each verse.
I started reading early. My parents had a bookcase in a corner of the living room where two couches made a nice little nook where I could hide out and read. One of the books was a Douay Bible. Got to tell you, some of it is kinda shocking for little kid. But I spent a lot of time reading it, trying to understand.
I mentioned some of them. I prefer actual Hebrew sites to Strong's, although it is often useful for many things. You can find some of the sources on Google Scholar.
Can you provide just one example of yovm being used in reference to a period of time other than 24 hours in the OT? You can use blue letter Bible to search for every usage of the word day in the OT. Here’s a link below.
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Strong’s Concordance can definitely be helpful but it is kind of vague. It doesn’t differentiate between day, days, in the day, etc etc. it just applies the transliteration Yom to every usage and gives a broad definition of how all of the different spellings are used but doesn’t specify which definition is associated with which spelling that’s being used.
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
You didn’t pay attention to anything I said.
Just one would be sufficient to support your usage of the word.
All those use yom. Did you not check the Hebrew original?
See above. Hebrew scholars have already verified all those uses of yom in scripture. Check an actual Hebrew copy and see.
No they don’t, did you look at any of the links I included for each verse? They’re a completely different form than the usage used in Genesis 1. In Genesis 1 YOVM is used. Not one of those verses you provided uses YOVM. Your link is completely ignoring the different usages of the words that are actually used, which is completely unsurprising since they’re quoting from Strong’s Conclusion like I already said.All those use yom. Did you not check the Hebrew original?
Eight times in the Old Testament Yom is translated "age." These range from sentences like "stricken in age," meaning old age (Genesis 18:11 and 24:1; Joshua 23:1 and 23:2), and other times it says "old age" (Genesis 21:2, Genesis 21:7). Genesis 47:28 refers to "the whole age of Jacob," therefore yom here refers to an entire lifetime. In Zechariah 8:4, it says old men and women will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, "each with cane in hand because of his age."
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (symbols omitted)
As you can see, Hebrew dictionaries attest to the fact that the word Yom is used for anywhere from 12 hours up to a year, and even a vague "time period" of unspecified length.
I don't think denial is going to be an adequate response here. Hebrew scholars have more credibility.
Like I said you can’t provide a single usage of the word Yovm that refers to anything other than a 24 hour period of time.I don't think denial is going to be an adequate response here. Hebrew scholars have more credibility.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:
- A point of time (a specific day)
- A time period of a half or whole day:
- A general term for time (as in "days of our lives")
- A year (in the plural use, as in "lived a lot of days")
- A time period of unspecified length
- A long, but finite, span of time
Yom - Wikipedia
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Genesis 1:5 יֹ֔ום DayI don't think denial is going to be an adequate response here. Hebrew scholars have more credibility.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:
- A point of time (a specific day)
- A time period of a half or whole day:
- A general term for time (as in "days of our lives")
- A year (in the plural use, as in "lived a lot of days")
- A time period of unspecified length
- A long, but finite, span of time
Yom - Wikipedia
