Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ἡμέρα

Vocabulary form: 
ἡμέρα
Definition: 

day

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.

Mnemonics

emera as in hey mara lets go out today

Biblical Concordance

John 4:40 When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them. He stayed there for (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem) two days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem).
John 4:43 Two days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem) later Jesus left from there and went to Galilee
John 5:9 And immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) was a Sabbath.
John 6:39 And this is the will of the one who sent me: that of all he has given me I should lose none but raise them up on the last day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem).
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem)
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem).
John 6:54 The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem);
John 7:37 On the last day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
John 8:56 Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem); he saw it and was glad.
John 9:4 We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day (hēmera | ἡμέρα | nom sg fem); night is coming when no one can work.
John 9:14 Now it was a Sabbath day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
John 11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem).
John 11:9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem)? If a person walks during the day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem), he will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
John 11:17 Now when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem).
John 11:24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem)
John 11:53 So from that day (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | gen sg fem) on they planned to put him to death.
John 12:1 Six days (hēmerōn | ἡμερῶν | gen pl fem) before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead.
John 12:7 Jesus therefore said, “Leave her alone. She had to keep this perfume for the day (hēmeran | ἡμέραν | acc sg fem) of my burial.
John 12:48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him at the last day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem).
John 14:20 On that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
John 16:23 On that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) you will question me about nothing. I tell you the solemn truth: whatever you ask of the Father in my name he will give to you.
John 16:26 In that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem) you will ask in my name. I am not saying to you that I will intercede with the Father on your behalf;
John 19:31 Then, since it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day) (hēmera | ἡμέρα | nom sg fem), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and their bodies taken down.
John 20:19 On the evening of that day (hēmera | ἡμέρᾳ | dat sg fem), the first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
John 20:26 Eight days (hēmeras | ἡμέρας | acc pl fem) later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
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.

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