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Originally Posted by MarkD
I seem to remember that word originally used was the Hebrew yom that has a number of meanings one being a period of time of no specific duration. The other bit that amuses me is people that say God made the world in seven days. What the Genesis has is that the world was made in six days, after all it has that he rested on the seventh so that cannot count.
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The transliteration is
yowm, and it can be used to mean a period of time as well as a specific, 24-hour day. However in the context of Gen.1 it is used repeatedly in conjunction with the words for evening and morning. There is no doubt that the author's intent was to signal literal periods of 24-hour days.
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http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-b...&version=KJV#5