לַיִלlayil
לַ֫יְלָה: night
Pronunciation: lah'-yil · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3915
Meanings
1. literally night, opposed to day (Genesis 8:22; Deuteronomy 1:33; Genesis 1:5)
לַ֫יְלָה: night (Daniel 2:19; Daniel 5:30; Daniel 7:2; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 7:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 233 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
- Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.
- Genesis 1:16 God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 1:18 to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 7:4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
- Genesis 7:12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:5, 1:14, 1:16, 1:18, 7:4, 7:12, 8:22, 14:15, 19:5, 19:33, 19:34, 19:35, 20:3, 26:24, 30:15, 30:16, 31:24, 31:39, 31:40, 32:13, 32:21, 32:22, 40:5, 41:11, 46:2
- Exodus 10:13, 11:4, 12:8, 12:12, 12:29, 12:30, 12:31, 12:42, 13:21, 13:22, 14:20, 14:21, 24:18, 34:28, 40:38
- Leviticus 6:9, 8:35
- Numbers 9:16, 9:21, 11:9, 11:32, 14:1, 14:14, 22:8, 22:19, 22:20
- Deuteronomy 1:33, 9:9, 9:11, 9:18, 9:25, 10:10, 16:1, 23:10, 28:66
- Joshua 1:8, 2:2, 4:3, 8:3, 8:9, 8:13, 10:9
- Judges 6:25, 6:27, 6:40, 7:9, 9:32, 9:34, 16:2, 16:3, 19:25, 20:5
- Ruth 1:12, 3:2, 3:8, 3:13
- 1 Samuel 14:34, 14:36, 15:11, 15:16, 19:10, 19:11, 19:24, 25:16, 26:7, 28:8, 28:20, 28:25, 30:12, 31:12
- 2 Samuel 2:29, 2:32, 4:7, 7:4, 17:1, 17:16, 19:7, 21:10
- 1 Kings 3:5, 3:19, 3:20, 8:29, 8:59, 19:8
- 2 Kings 6:14, 7:12, 8:21, 19:35, 25:4
- 1 Chronicles 9:33, 17:3
- 2 Chronicles 1:7, 6:20, 7:12, 21:9, 35:14
- Nehemiah 1:6, 2:12, 2:13, 2:15, 4:9, 4:22, 6:10, 9:12, 9:19
- Esther 4:16, 6:1
- Job 2:13, 3:3, 3:6, 3:7, 4:13, 5:14, 7:3, 17:12, 20:8, 24:14, 27:20, 30:17, 33:15, 34:20, 34:25, 35:10, 36:20
- Psalms 1:2, 6:6, 16:7, 17:3, 19:2, 22:2, 32:4, 42:3, 42:8, 55:10, 74:16, 77:2, 77:6, 78:14, 88:1, 90:4, 91:5, 92:2, 104:20, 105:39, 119:55, 119:62, 121:6, 134:1, 136:9, 139:11, 139:12
- Proverbs 7:9, 31:15, 31:18
- Ecclesiastes 2:23, 8:16
- Song of Solomon 3:1, 3:8, 5:2
- Isaiah 4:5, 15:1, 16:3, 21:8, 21:11, 21:12, 26:9, 27:3, 28:19, 29:7, 30:29, 34:10, 38:12, 38:13, 60:11, 62:6
- Jeremiah 6:5, 9:1, 14:17, 16:13, 31:35, 33:20, 33:25, 36:30, 39:4, 49:9, 52:7
- Lamentations 1:2, 2:18, 2:19
- Hosea 4:5, 7:6
- Amos 5:8
- Obadiah 1:5
- Jonah 1:17, 4:10
- Micah 3:6
- Zechariah 1:8, 14:7
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).