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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: day
according to Hebrew reckoning (as reflected in the NT), a period of time beginning at sunset and ending at the following sunset
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-01Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 33 (33 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: day
the daylight period between sunrise and sunset (divided into twelve hours)
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-02Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 138 (138 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: time, period
an indefinite unit of time (whether grammatically singular or plural), but not particularly long (note the contrast with α ἰ ώ ν semantic domain 67.143 , and γ ε ν ε ά semantic domain 67.144 )
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-03Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 109 (109 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: daylight
the light of the day in contrast with the darkness of night (see ν ύ ξ semantic domain 14.59 )[source note 1]
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-04Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 13 (13 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: court, court of justice
a court of justice for determining guilt or innocence[source note 2]
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-05Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 6: for a long time, for quite a while, day after day, every day
(idioms, literally: day out of day, and: throughout day, respectively) a relatively long period of time
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-06Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 20 (20 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 7: day of condemnation
(an idiom, literally: day of slaughter) a time of destructive judgment
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-07Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 8: a long time
(idioms, literally: forty days and forty nights, forty days, respectively) possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a relatively long period of time
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-08Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 4 (4 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 9: to be old
(an idiom, literally: to advance in days) to be quite advanced in age
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-09Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 3 (3 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 10: day and night, always, constantly, continually
(expressions, literally: night and day, day and night, day and day, respectively) duration of time, either continuous or episodic, but without limits
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-10Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 18 (18 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 11: Day of the Lord, Judgment Day
time in an eschatological frame, referring to a final judgment or to the coming of Christ
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-11Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 51 (51 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 12: a few days later
(an idiom, literally: through days) a point of time subsequent to another point of time after an interval of a few days
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Sense ID SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002259-12Source ubs_greek_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
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Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-GRK-LEMMA-002259Page model version 1.0 Direction ltr Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
