yom
| 21:07 Mar 12, 2002 |
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peer agreement (net): +1Day Explanation: Yom is Hebrew, the language in which the Old Testament was written, and it means day, singular. It's spelled yod-vav-mem and looks like this: יום |
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9 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1day Explanation: Yom (in Hebrew) means [a] day. Yamim means days. You may be thinking of the problem, How did god create the world in a few days when science tells us it took millions of years. One suggestion is that god's day is short for god, but equals millions of years for humans. However, there is no ambiguity about the Hebrew words themeselves. There are many Hebrew words that mean a long but indefinite period of time: et, tkufa, idan, dor ... |
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