Re: [asa] yom (was truth with love award)

There are two distinct uses of yom in Genesis 1. In addition to the six
days, 1:5 uses yom to refer to day in the sense of "not night". This
non-24 hour sense of yom is common elsewhere in the OT.

Genesis 2:4 uses yom to refer to the time interval for all of creation.

Lev. 25:8 uses yom for the 49 year interval between Jubilees.

Hos. 6:2 and various other passages use "on the third day" as an idiom for
"soon."

There are several additional passages where yom is often translated by time,
year, etc. but for which a 24 hour interpretation would not be impossible (
e.g., "after many yom" for a period of many years, but of course many years
is also many many days).

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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