the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night

1. in the daytime

2. metaph., "the day" is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness

of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)

1. Eastern usage of this term differs from our western usage. Any part of a day is counted as a whole day, hence the expression "three days and three nights" does not mean literally three whole days, but at least one whole day plus part of two other days.

of the last day of this present age, the day Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom

used of time in general, i.e. the days of his life.

and, also, even, indeed, but

to abstain as a religious exercise from food and drink: either entirely, if the fast lasted but a single day, or from customary and choice nourishment, if it continued several days

night

metaph. the time when work ceases

1. the time of death

2. the time for deeds of sin and shame

3. the time of moral stupidity and darkness

4. the time when the weary and also the drunken give themselves up to slumber

to hunger, be hungry

1. to suffer want

2. to be needy

metaph. to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire

forty

latter, later, coming after, the second

afterward, after this, later, lastly