• a chronology’s function • sixth-day events • the seventh day • the coming eighth day • biblical clocks WORD CHOICES: YÔM, ʿEREB, AND BŌQER The Hebrew word yôm, translated “day,” is used in biblical Hebrew (as in modern English) to indicate any of four time periods: (a) some portion of the daylight (hours), (b) sunrise to sunset, (c) sunset to sunset, or (d) a segment of time without any reference to solar days (from weeks to a year to several years to an age or epoch).2 Yôm cannot, however, be
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