Night
לַ֫יְלָהStrong’s H3915laylah (lay-lah)
Appears in 223 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laylah is the Hebrew word usually translated “night”, “this night” and “nights”. It appears in 223 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.”
Meaning
- Nightnight (as opposed to day) · of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
How it's translated
- night 81
- the night 40
- in the night 38
- and night 26
- this night 17
- in a night 4
- nights 4
- in the nights 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 27
- Genesis 25
- Job 17
- Isaiah 16
- Exodus 15
- 1 Samuel 14
30 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:7In contextBut it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
- Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
- Genesis 1:16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
- Genesis 1:18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
All 223 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
לַ֫יְלָה laylah · night
1) night 1a) night (as opposed to day) 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.