Night
νύξStrong’s G3571nux
Appears in 62 verses of the New Testament
In short
Nux is the Greek word usually translated “night”, “nights” and “evening”. It appears in 62 verses of the New Testament.
“Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:”
Meaning
Usually translated “night”, “nights” and “evening”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- night 47
- by night 11
- nights 3
- of night 2
- the evening 1
- at night 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 15
- Matthew 9
- Revelation 8
- Luke 7
- John 7
- Mark 5
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Timothy 5:5In contextNow she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
- 2 Peter 3:10In contextBut the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
- Matthew 2:14When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
- Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 14:25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
All 62 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
νύξ nux · night
νύξ genitive νυκτός, ἡ, [in LXX chiefly for לַיִל ;] night: Mat.12:40, Mrk.6:48, Jhn.13:30, al.; genitive temp. (of the time within which something happens; M, Pr., 73; B1., § 36, 13), νυκτός, by night, Mat.2:14, Jhn.3:2, 1Th.5:7, al.; ν. κ. ἡμέρας, Mrk.5:5, 1Th.2:9, al.; ἡμέρας κ. ν., Luk.18:7, Rev.4:8, al.; μέσης ν., Mat.25:6; dative, νυκτί, in ans. to the question, "when?" (rare in cl.; Hdt., Soph.), ταύτῃ τ. ν., Luk.12:20, al.; ἐκείνῃ Act.12:6; ἐπιούσῃ, Act.23:11; accusative durat. (Bl., § 34, 8; Kühner3, III, 314b), ν. κ. ἠμέραν, Luk.2:37 Act.20:31; τ. νύκτας, Luk.21:37; διὰ νυκτός (= c …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “night” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NIGHT, noun
[The sense may be dark, black, or it may be the decline of the day, from declining, departing.]
- That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise.
- The time after the close of life; death. John 9:4
- A state of ignorance; intellectual and moral darkness; heathenish ignorance. Romans 13:12
- Adversity; a state of affliction and distress. Isaiah 21:4
All definitions
- Obscurity; a state of concealment from the eye or the mind; unintelligibleness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.