Discerning Which Definition to Use

purpledawn writes:It's also dishonest to put a figurative meaning to a word when the literal meaning is called for in the sentence.

actually, we are talking about how to determine the meaning of a word when a word has multiple means....as purpledawns OP asks

Peg writes:1. Context of the immediate passage.

Peg writes:2. Other verses of the bible revealing more information on the subject

hooah212002 writes:In some cases, yes. like when it is unclear and the word requires more background. But in cases where it is absolutely clear (like the verses I have quoted 5 times now), the sentence itself is sufficient.

Original Word: יוֹם
Transliteration: yom
Phonetic Spelling: (yome)
Short Definition: age
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
day
NASB Word Usage
afternoon* (1), age (8), age* (1), all (1), always* (14), amount* (2), battle (1), birthday* (1), Chronicles* (38), completely* (1), continually* (14), course* (1), daily (22), daily the days (1), day (1115), day of the days (1), day that the period (1), day's (6), day's every day (1), daylight* (1), days (635), days on the day (1), days to day (1), days you shall daily (1), days ago (1), days' (11), each (1), each day (4), entire (2), eternity (1), evening* (1), ever in your life* (1), every day (2), fate (1), first (5), forever* (11), forevermore* (1), full (5), full year (1), future* (1), holiday* (3), later* (2), length (1), life (12), life* (1), lifetime (2), lifetime* (1), live (1), long (2), long as i live (1), long* (11), midday* (1), now (5), older* (1), once (2), period (3), perpetually* (2), present (1), recently (1), reigns (1), ripe* (1), short-lived* (1), so long* (1), some time (1), survived* (2), time (45), time* (1), times* (2), today (172), today* (1), usual (1), very old* (1), when (10), when the days (1), whenever (1), while (3), whole (2), year (10), yearly (5), years (13), yesterday* (1).

And there was evening, and there was morningthe first day.

Kenneth Gentry writes:The Hebrew word yom ("day") in the Genesis 1 account of creation should be understood in a normal sense of a 24-hour period, for the following reasons:(2) Argument from explicit qualification. Moses carefully qualifies each of the six creative days with the phraseology: "evening and morning." The qualification is a deliberate defining of the concept of day. Outside of Genesis 1 the words "evening" and "morning" occur together in thirty-seven verses. In each instance it speaks of a normal day.Examples from Moses include:Exodus 18:13: And so it was, on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood before Moses from morning until evening.Exodus 27:21: In the tabernacle of meeting, outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the LORD.(3) Argument from ordinal prefix. In the 119 cases in Moses's writings where the Hebrew word yom stands in conjunction with a numerical adjective (first, second, third, etc.), it never means anything other than a literal day. The same is true of the 357 instances outside of the Pentateuch, where numerical adjectives occur.Examples include:Leviticus 12:3: And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.Exodus 12:15: Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.Exodus 24:16: Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.The Genesis 1 account of creation consistently applies the ordinal prefix to the day descriptions, along with "evening and morning" qualifiers (Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31).

Exodus 20:9-11 writes: 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

hooah212002 writes:how long are you to work, Peg? 6 thousand years? Taking 1 thousand off for the sabbath?

hooah212002 quote writes:(2) Argument from explicit qualification. Moses carefully qualifies each of the six creative days with the phraseology: "evening and morning." The qualification is a deliberate defining of the concept of day. Outside of Genesis 1 the words "evening" and "morning" occur together in thirty-seven verses. In each instance it speaks of a normal day.

If you take notice of Genesis you'll see that the sabbath day was never said to come to its end.

Leviticus 12:3 writes: And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Then another 2,000 years later the Apostle Paul spoke about Gods Sabbath, he told christians that God was still resting....thats almost 4,000 years after the fact. This is another reason why we dont take the genesis days as literal.

hooah212002 writes:You've out foxed me on this one. What the hell are you talking about? Are you saying we are still in "the sabbath day" or" "the day of the sabbath"? You really have a way of making the bible fit your faith, eh?

There remains a sabbath resting for the people of God. For the man that has entered into God’s rest has also himself rested from his own works, just as God did from his own. Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest.

hooah212002 writes:How long does it take to cut foreskin?

hooah212002 writes:How could god have been resting with all the killing he did?

this 'day' can be taken literally, its the 8th day after a child birth, the length of time it takes to make the cut is of no consequence. Im not saying we never take the word yom literally.

hooah212002 writes:It is used in the same sense, Peg. First day, second day....7th day. Every where else in the bible where yom is used in this manner it means one 24 hour day. I've already shown you an example verse.

1:31After that God saw everything he had made and, look! [it was] very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth and all their army came to their completion.
2And by the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made.
3And God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making.

hooah212002 writes:Secondly, if yom in genesis 1 means anything other than a literal 24 hour day, why mention morning and evening?