לַ֫יְלָה
night
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 220 times (94%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 9 times (4%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 5 times (2%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 235 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 1 of 2 — showing verses 1–200 of 223 distinct verses where H3915 appears, across 30 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 25 verses
- Genesis 1:5 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
- Genesis 1:14 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:16 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 1:18 וּ/בַ/לַּ֔יְלָה conj + prep det + n c ms and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 7:4 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 7:12 לָֽיְלָה n c ms The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 8:22 וָ/לַ֖יְלָה conj + n c ms While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
- Genesis 14:15 לַ֛יְלָה n c ms He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
- Genesis 19:5 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."
- Genesis 19:33 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
- Genesis 19:34 הַ/לַּ֗יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
- Genesis 19:35 בַּ/לַּ֧יְלָה prep det + n c ms They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger arose, and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
- Genesis 20:3 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
- Genesis 26:24 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
- Genesis 30:15 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
- Genesis 30:16 בַּ/לַּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
- Genesis 31:24 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 31:39 לָֽיְלָה n c ms That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
- Genesis 31:40 בַּ/לָּ֑יְלָה prep det + n c ms Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 32:13 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
- Genesis 32:21 בַּ/לַּֽיְלָה prep det + n c ms So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
- Genesis 32:22 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
- Genesis 40:5 בְּ/לַ֣יְלָה prep + n c ms They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
- Genesis 41:11 בְּ/לַ֥יְלָה prep + n c ms We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 46:2 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
Exodus 15 verses
- Exodus 10:13 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 11:4 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,
- Exodus 12:8 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
- Exodus 12:12 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
- Exodus 12:29 הַ/לַּ֗יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- Exodus 12:30 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- Exodus 12:31 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
- Exodus 12:42 לֵ֣יל הַ/לַּ֤יְלָה n c ms cs ptcl def.art + n c ms It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
- Exodus 13:21 וְ/לַ֛יְלָה וָ/לָֽיְלָה conj + n c ms conj + n c ms Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 13:22 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
- Exodus 14:20 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
- Exodus 14:21 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Exodus 24:18 לָֽיְלָה n c ms Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 34:28 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Exodus 40:38 לַ֖יְלָה n c ms For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tent by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 6:9 הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
- Leviticus 8:35 וָ/לַ֨יְלָה֙ conj + n c ms At the door of the Tent of Meeting you shall stay day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Yahweh, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."
Numbers 9 verses
- Numbers 9:16 לָֽיְלָה n c ms So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- Numbers 9:21 וָ/לַ֔יְלָה conj + n c ms Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
- Numbers 11:9 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
- Numbers 11:32 הַ/לַּ֜יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 14:1 בַּ/לַּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- Numbers 14:14 לָֽיְלָה n c ms and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 22:8 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
- Numbers 22:19 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.
- Numbers 22:20 לַיְלָה֒ n c ms God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.
Deuteronomy 9 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:33 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
- Deuteronomy 9:9 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
- Deuteronomy 9:11 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
- Deuteronomy 9:18 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:25 הַ/לַּ֖יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 16:1 לָֽיְלָה n c ms Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
- Deuteronomy 23:10 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
- Deuteronomy 28:66 לַ֣יְלָה n c ms and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
Joshua 7 verses
- Joshua 1:8 וָ/לַ֔יְלָה conj + n c ms This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Joshua 2:2 הַ/לַּ֛יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms It was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in here tonight of the children of Israel to search out the land.
- Joshua 4:3 הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.
- Joshua 8:3 לָֽיְלָה n c ms So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
- Joshua 8:9 בַּ/לַּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
- Joshua 8:13 בַּ/לַּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
- Joshua 10:9 הַ/לַּ֕יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Joshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night.
Judges 10 verses
- Judges 6:25 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
- Judges 6:27 לָֽיְלָה n c ms Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
- Judges 6:40 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
- Judges 7:9 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
- Judges 9:32 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:
- Judges 9:34 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- Judges 16:2 הַ/לַּ֖יְלָה הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
- Judges 16:3 הַ/לַּיְלָה֒ הַ/לַּ֗יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
- Judges 19:25 הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
- Judges 20:5 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.
Ruth 4 verses
- Ruth 1:12 הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
- Ruth 3:2 הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
- Ruth 3:8 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
- Ruth 3:13 הַ/לַּ֗יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform to you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, then will I do the part of a kinsman to you, as Yahweh lives: lie down until the morning.
1 Samuel 14 verses
- 1 Samuel 14:34 הַ/לַּ֖יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
- 1 Samuel 14:36 לַ֜יְלָה n c ms Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
- 1 Samuel 15:11 הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
- 1 Samuel 15:16 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
- 1 Samuel 19:10 בַּ/לַּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
- 1 Samuel 19:11 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
- 1 Samuel 19:24 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
- 1 Samuel 25:16 לַ֖יְלָה n c ms they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- 1 Samuel 26:7 לַיְלָה֒ n c ms So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.
- 1 Samuel 28:8 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever I shall name to you.
- 1 Samuel 28:20 הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
- 1 Samuel 28:25 בַּ/לַּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
- 1 Samuel 30:12 לֵילֽוֹת n c mp They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 1 Samuel 31:12 הַ/לַּיְלָה֒ ptcl def.art + n c ms all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
2 Samuel 8 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:29 הַ/לַּ֣יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
- 2 Samuel 2:32 הַ/לַּ֗יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 4:7 הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
- 2 Samuel 7:4 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,
- 2 Samuel 17:1 הַ/לָּֽיְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
- 2 Samuel 17:16 הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.
- 2 Samuel 19:7 הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.
- 2 Samuel 21:10 לָֽיְלָה n c ms Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
1 Kings 6 verses
- 1 Kings 3:5 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.
- 1 Kings 3:19 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
- 1 Kings 3:20 הַ/לַּ֜יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
- 1 Kings 8:29 לַ֣יְלָה n c ms that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
- 1 Kings 8:59 וָ/לָ֑יְלָה conj + n c ms Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;
- 1 Kings 19:8 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
2 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 6:14 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
- 2 Kings 7:12 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
- 2 Kings 8:21 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
- 2 Kings 19:35 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- 2 Kings 25:4 הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 9:33 וָ/לַ֛יְלָה conj + n c ms These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the chambers [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.
- 1 Chronicles 17:3 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
2 Chronicles 5 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:7 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
- 2 Chronicles 6:20 וָ/לַ֔יְלָה conj + n c ms that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
- 2 Chronicles 7:12 בַּ/לָּ֑יְלָה prep det + n c ms Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
- 2 Chronicles 21:9 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.
- 2 Chronicles 35:14 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
Nehemiah 9 verses
- Nehemiah 1:6 וָ/לַ֔יְלָה conj + n c ms Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:
- Nehemiah 2:12 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
- Nehemiah 2:13 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.
- Nehemiah 2:15 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
- Nehemiah 4:9 וָ/לַ֖יְלָה conj + n c ms But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
- Nehemiah 4:22 הַ/לַּ֛יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.
- Nehemiah 6:10 וְ/לַ֖יְלָה conj + n c ms I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you.
- Nehemiah 9:12 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
- Nehemiah 9:19 בְּ/לַ֨יְלָה֙ prep + n c ms yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
Esther 2 verses
- Esther 4:16 לַ֣יְלָה n c ms Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
- Esther 6:1 בַּ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms On that night the king couldn't sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
Job 17 verses
- Job 2:13 לֵיל֑וֹת n c mp So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 3:3 וְ/הַ/לַּ֥יְלָה conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms "Let the day perish in which I was born, The night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.'
- Job 3:6 הַ/לַּ֥יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
- Job 3:7 הַ/לַּ֣יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
- Job 4:13 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
- Job 5:14 וְ֝/כַ/לַּ֗יְלָה conj + prep det + n c ms They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
- Job 7:3 וְ/לֵיל֥וֹת conj + n c mp cs So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- Job 17:12 לַ֭יְלָה n c ms They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
- Job 20:8 לָֽיְלָה n c ms He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
- Job 24:14 וּ֝/בַ/לַּ֗יְלָה conj + prep det + n c ms The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
- Job 27:20 לַ֝֗יְלָה n c ms Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
- Job 30:17 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
- Job 33:15 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;
- Job 34:20 לָ֥יְלָה n c ms In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.
- Job 34:25 לַ֝֗יְלָה n c ms Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- Job 35:10 בַּ/לָּֽיְלָה prep det + n c ms But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,
- Job 36:20 הַ/לָּ֑יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms Don't desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
Psalms 27 verses
- Psalms 1:2 וָ/לָֽיְלָה conj + n c ms But his delight is in Yahweh's law; On his law he meditates day and night.
- Psalms 6:6 לַ֭יְלָה n c ms I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 16:7 לֵ֝יל֗וֹת n c mp I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
- Psalms 17:3 לַּ֗יְלָה n c ms You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and found nothing; I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
- Psalms 19:2 וְ/לַ֥יְלָה לְּ֝/לַ֗יְלָה conj + n c ms prep + n c ms Day after day they pour forth speech, And night after night they display knowledge.
- Psalms 22:2 וְ֝/לַ֗יְלָה conj + n c ms My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
- Psalms 32:4 וָ/לַיְלָה֮ conj + n c ms For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 42:3 וָ/לָ֑יְלָה conj + n c ms My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Psalms 42:8 וּ֭/בַ/לַּיְלָה conj + prep det + n c ms Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 55:10 וָ/לַ֗יְלָה conj + n c ms Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
- Psalms 74:16 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
- Psalms 77:2 לַ֣יְלָה n c ms In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 77:6 בַּ֫/לָּ֥יְלָה prep det + n c ms I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; My spirit diligently inquires:
- Psalms 78:14 הַ֝/לַּ֗יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, And all night with a light of fire.
- Psalms 88:1 בַ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
- Psalms 90:4 בַ/לָּֽיְלָה prep det + n c ms For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.
- Psalms 91:5 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;
- Psalms 92:2 בַּ/לֵּילֽוֹת prep det + n c mp To proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, And your faithfulness every night,
- Psalms 104:20 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the animals of the forest prowl.
- Psalms 105:39 לָֽיְלָה n c ms He spread a cloud for a covering, Fire to give light in the night.
- Psalms 119:55 בַ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, And I obey your law.
- Psalms 119:62 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, Because of your righteous ordinances.
- Psalms 121:6 בַּ/לָּֽיְלָה prep det + n c ms The sun will not harm you by day, Nor the moon by night.
- Psalms 134:1 בַּ/לֵּילֽוֹת prep det + n c mp Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, Who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
- Psalms 136:9 בַּ/לָּ֑יְלָה prep det + n c ms The moon and stars to rule by night; For his loving kindness endures forever:
- Psalms 139:11 וְ֝/לַ֗יְלָה conj + n c ms If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"
- Psalms 139:12 וְ֭/לַיְלָה conj + n c ms Even the darkness doesn't hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Proverbs 3 verses
- Proverbs 7:9 לַ֝֗יְלָה n c ms In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
- Proverbs 31:15 לַ֗יְלָה n c ms She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.
- Proverbs 31:18 ב/ליל בַ/לַּ֣יְלָה prep det + n c ms prep det + n c ms She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 2:23 בַּ/לַּ֖יְלָה prep det + n c ms For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 8:16 וּ/בַ/לַּ֔יְלָה conj + prep det + n c ms When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
Song of Solomon 3 verses
- Song of Solomon 3:1 בַּ/לֵּיל֔וֹת prep det + n c mp By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
- Song of Solomon 3:8 בַּ/לֵּילּֽוֹת prep det + n c mp They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, Because of fear in the night.
- Song of Solomon 5:2 לָֽיְלָה n c ms I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My hair with the dampness of the night.
Isaiah 16 verses
- Isaiah 4:5 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
- Isaiah 15:1 בְּ/לֵ֞יל בְּ/לֵ֛יל prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing.
- Isaiah 16:3 כַ/לַּ֛יִל prep det + n c ms Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; don't betray the fugitive.
- Isaiah 21:8 הַ/לֵּילֽוֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
- Isaiah 21:11 מִ/לַּ֔יְלָה מִ/לֵּֽיל prep + n c ms prep + n c ms cs The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
- Isaiah 21:12 לָ֑יְלָה n c ms The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
- Isaiah 26:9 בַּ/לַּ֔יְלָה prep det + n c ms With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Isaiah 27:3 לַ֥יְלָה n c ms I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
- Isaiah 28:19 וּ/בַ/לָּ֑יְלָה conj + prep det + n c ms As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.
- Isaiah 29:7 לַ֔יְלָה n c ms The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
- Isaiah 30:29 כְּ/לֵ֖יל prep + n c ms cs You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel.
- Isaiah 34:10 לַ֤יְלָה n c ms It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
- Isaiah 38:12 לַ֖יְלָה n c ms My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
- Isaiah 38:13 לַ֖יְלָה n c ms I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
- Isaiah 60:11 וָ/לַ֖יְלָה conj + n c ms Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
- Isaiah 62:6 הַ/לַּ֛יְלָה ptcl def.art + n c ms I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
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The Hebrew noun ליל centers on the idea of “night.” First canonically at Genesis 1:5, it enters the text early. It turns up in 223 verses across 30 books, a common footprint. Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It clusters with לול, ללאה and לילית under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H3915 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 223
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 223 distinct verses.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #200
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 200 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 223 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 223 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 86 verses · 39%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 77 verses · 35%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 60 verses · 27%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Night 155×, Nights 14×, All night 7×
- American Standard Version: Night 138×, Nights 14×, All the night 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Night 173×, Nights 14×, Tonight 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Night 181×, Nights 16×, Tonight 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3915 across 224 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 9 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3915 across 222 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 34 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3915 across 221 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 12 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3915 across 255 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
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The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. lit. night, opp. day, Gn 8:22 (J), Dt 1:33 + very often (v. יוֹם); alternation of day and night divinely ordained Gn 1:5 (P), Je 33:20(×2), 25 +; מִיּוֹם עַד־ל׳ Is 38:12, 13 i.e. within one whole day; as close of day, עַד־ל׳ 2 Ch 35:14; as time of sacred חָג (לֵיל) Is 30:29; of suffering and weeping לֵילוֹת עָמָל Jb 7:3, cf. ψ 6:7; 77:3 etc.; of pious desires, prayer, praise, meditation, etc. (sometimes ‖ by day) Is 26:9 Jb 35:10 ψ 1:2; 22:3; 42:9; 77:7; 88:2; 92:3; 119:5(×2), cf. 16:7; 17:3; of night-service in Temple 134:1; of sudden assault, or destruction, Is 15:1 Je 6:5 Ob 5 Jb 27:20; 34:20, 25; 36:20; divided into watches ψ 90:4; לֵיל שִׁמֻּרִים Ex 12:42 v. sub שׁמר; c. num., denoting duration of time, †forty days and forty nights Gn 7:4, 12 Ex 24:18; 34:28 Dt 9:9, 11, 18, 25; 10:10 1 K 19:8; three days and three nights (שְׁלשָׁה לֵילוֹת) 1 S 30:12 Jon 2:1; seven days and seven nights (שִׁבְעַת לֵילוֹת) Jb 2:13†; חֲלוֹם הַלּ׳ †Gn 20:3; 31:24 (both E), 1 K 3:5; מַרְאֹת הַלּ׳ Gn 46:2 (E); חֶזְיוֹן ל׳ Jb 20:8; 33:15, חֶזְיֹנוֹת ל׳ 4:13, חֲלוֹם חֲזוֹן ל׳ Is 29:7 (cf. Mi 3:6 infr.)†; בִּן־ל׳ Jon 4:10(×2) v. בֵּן 8. p. 121 b. Chiefly in adverb. phr.:—בַּחֲצִי הַלּ׳ at midnight Ex 12:29 + (v. חֲצִי, חָצוֹת p. 345 b), cf. בְּתוֹךְ הַלּ׳ †1 K 3:20, בְּאִישׁוֹן ל׳ Pr 7:9†; בַּלּ׳ הַזֶּה Ex 12:8, 12 on this night (P; the night of which one is speaking); בַּלּ׳ הַהוּא on that night Gn 19:35 (J) + often, (P only Nu 14:1); בַּל׳ הוּא Gn 19:33; 30:16; so הַלּ׳ alone †1 S 14:34, but del. 𝔊 We Kit, cf. Dr; Klo Bu read ליהוה; הַלּ׳ to-night †Gn 19:5, 34; 30:15 (all J), Nu 22:8, 19 (E), Jos 2:2; 4:3 (both JE), 2 S 17:1, 16; 19:8 Ru 1:12; 3:2, 13, opp. מָחָר to-morrow 1 S 19:11; הַלּ׳ = this night just past, last night 1 S 15:16 Zc 1:8; כָּל־הַלּ׳ all night Ho 7:6 (opp. בֹּקֶר), Ex 14:20, 21 (J), Nu 11:32 Jos 10:9 (both JE), Ju 16:2(×2); 19:25 1 S 15:11; 31:12 2 S 2:29, 32; 4:7; opp. כל־היום ההוא (of continuous action) 1 S 19:24; 28:20 Is 62:6, opp. יומם ψ 78:14; בְּכָל־ל׳ ψ 6:7 every night (prob.); cf. כָּל־הַלֵּילוֹת Is 21:8 all the nights (opp. יוֹמָם)†; especially לַיְלָה by night Nu 22:20 (E) Jos 8:3 (JE), Dt 16:1 Nu 9:16 (P) + 51 times; of these Gn 14:15 and Ex 13:21, 22 (J) + 25 times opp. יוֹמָם, covering all the time; otherwise Ju 6:27 (opp. יוֹמָם); לַיְלָה וָיוֹם night and day 1 K 8:29 Is 27:3 Est 4:16; less often לֵילוֹת ψ 16:7; הַלּ׳ by night †2 K 25:4 (ל׳ in ‖ Je 52:7), Zc 1:8 Ne 4:16 (opp. הַיּוֹם)†; בַּלּ׳ id., Je 6:5 + 18 times (chfly late; often opp. בַּיּוֹם, יוֹמָם, etc.); בַּלֵּילוֹת †ψ 92:3 (opp. בַּבֹּקֶר), 134:1 Ct 3:1, 8; בְּלַיְלָה Ne 9:19 (opp. בְּיוֹמָם); בְּלֵיל Is 15:1(×2); כַּל׳ as at night Jb 5:14 (opp. צָהֳרָ֑יִם)†. e.g. Genesis 8:22
- 2. fig. שִׁיתִי כַּלַיִל צִלֵּךְ Is 16:3 sim. of shadow of Zion as protection; more often in gloomy sense, of avenging calamity without divine guidance or comfort לַיְלָה מֵחָזוֹן Mi 3:6; personal distress Jb 35:10; judgment perhaps also Jb 36:20 (Ew De Di Da; night of death Bu; ‘unintelligible’ Siegf); מַה־מִּלַּיְלָה מַה־מִּלֵּיל Is 21:11 i. e. what hour of the night of calamity is it? cf. v 12 (opp. בֹּקֶר). e.g. Isaiah 16:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Gn 40:5 night (NH id.; MI15 (ב)ללה; Aramaic לֵילָא, ܠܻܠܝܳܐ, ܠܶܠܝܳܐ; Arabic لَيْلٌ, لَيْلَةٌ; Ethiopic ሌሊት all = night; Assyrian lîlâtu, evening DlHWB; meaning of √ dubious; form probably לילי, and ending ָה radical, and not ה loc., NöM 127 DlProl. 128 Ges§ 90, 2. c. R. Köi. p. 57, R. 1);—abs. לַ֫יְלָה Gn 19:33 + 214 times + 2 times Qr (v. infr.); לָ֑יְלָה Gn 1:5 + 3 times; לַ֫יִל Is 16:3 + Pr 31:18 La 2:19 Kt (Qr לַיְלָה); לֵיל Is 15:1(×2); 21:11; cstr. לֵיל Ex 12:42 Is 30:29; pl. abs. לֵילוֹת 1 S 30:12 + 4 times; cstr. id., Is 21:8 + 5 times;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לול (lûwl) (H3883) — staircase.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
ליל
- , Tosef. B. Bath. I, 4, read: לוּל.
לֵיל
- , Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXII, 10 = יְלֵיל, v. יְלָלָא
לַיִל
- (b. h.)
- 1. night, evening; darkness; metaph. suffering, misery. Cant. R. to II, 17 לֵילָן של מלכיות the misery (of exile) under the governments; לילן של מצוים the sufferings in Egypt; v. פִּיחָה. Y. Taan. I, 64ᵃ top, v. בֹּקֶר. Ber. 3ᵃ ג׳ משמרות הוי הל׳ the night is divided into three watches. Zeb. V, 3 ליום וָלַ׳ וכ׳ the same day and the night following to midnight. Snh. 96ᵃ שנעשה עמו מעשה ל׳ Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.) night-work was done for him (the stars helping, v. Jud. V, 20); a. v. fr.—Pl. לֵילוֹת, constr. לֵילֵי (also used as a sing.: night-time, v. next w.). Ber. I, 5 בַּלֵּ׳ at night (in the night prayer). Taan. 23ᵃ בל׳ רביעיות ובל׳ שבתות (not רביעית) in the nights of Wednesdays and Sabbaths. Sifra B’ḥuck. ch. I מל׳ שבת לל׳ שבת every Sabbath night; Lev. R. s. 35 בל׳ שבתות. Pes. 71ᵃ ל׳ יו"ט האחרון the night of the last (eighth) day of the festival; Succ. 48ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Judges 5:20
- 2. pr. n. Laylah (ref. to Job III, 3), name of the angel of night and of conception. (ref. to Job III, 3), name of the angel of night and of conception. Snh. 96ᵃ. Nidd. 16ᵇ e.g. Job 3:3
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Forms in the corpus
The 82 distinct written forms H3915 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 22 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 204 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 223 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:5
- Exodus 10:13
- Leviticus 6:9
- Numbers 9:16
- Deuteronomy 1:33
- Joshua 1:8
- Judges 6:25
- Ruth 1:12
- 1 Samuel 14:34
- 2 Samuel 2:29
- 1 Kings 3:5
- 2 Kings 6:14
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
