And God named the light day and the darkness night. And the first days were the evening (H6153) and the morning. Three Hebrew words that convey the entire narrative. They deserve more thought than a quick scan of this little verse. The first word is erev, which means "evening." The second word is shahar, which means "morning." And the third word is yom, which means "day" or "light." So day = evening + morning, which is why some translations say that creation changed from night to day and others say it changed from day to night. Hebrew has many words that can be used as verbs but that also mean other things. This word trio combines with another verb to create two different meanings. Erev means "to change from day to night." Shahar means "to shine, glow," which is why some translations say that creation shone out of nothing into being day. Yom means "to mark off a period of time," so creation would have marked off a period of time between night and day. Hebrew uses many different types of conjunctions. There are six main categories of conjunctions: temporal, logical, psychological, contrast, relative, and evidential. Of these, only the first three are relevant to understanding daily life in ancient Israel. The rest are beyond the scope of this lesson.