What is the Bibles Definition of 'Day'
I find 'day' to be an interesting word in the Bible. I didn't realize how much work it would take to figure it out until I started to look at time lines of Biblical events. For instance looking at the death and resurrection of Jesus is confusing without a proper Biblical definition of 'day'. So that is what I am going to explore in this blog. First lets quickly look at how I and most 21st century English speakers use the word 'day'. It has two main meanings. The time between sunrise and sunset (daytime/daylight). The combination of a daytime and a night time (24 hr day). And to be more precise we take a partial night time on either end of the daytime, from midnight to midnight. Both of these are perfectly fine in our current usage but they greatly add to the confusion when studying Bible timelines. A typical study of 'day' would include looking how the current people of Israel use the word. They start and end the day at evening. Does that