DAY’s JOURNEY (דֶּ֤רֶכְ יﯴמ׃֙, ἡμέρας ὁδός). The distance that a person can normally travel in one day. This would necessarily vary with the terrain and the method of travel—whether on foot, with an animal, with a caravan; also whether the journey was made in leisure or in haste. Herodotus in one place (IV 101) says that he reckons a day’s journey at twenty-five m.; in another place (V 53), at eighteen m. Mention is made of a day’s journey (Num 11:31; 1 Kings 19:4; Jonah 3:4; Luke 2:44); of a three days’ journey (Gen 30:36; Exod 3:18; 5:3; 8:27; Num 10:33; Jonah 3:3); and of a seven days’ journey (Gen 31:23; 2 Kings 3:9). It is said that Laban pursued Jacob from Haran to Gilead, a distance of 350 m., in seven days—or an average of fifty m. a day (Gen 31:23).