Night
לֵילָאStrong’s H3916leleya (le-le-ya)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Leleya is the Aramaic word usually translated “night the” and “on night the”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.”
Meaning
- Night
How it's translated
- night the 4
- on night the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:30In contextIn that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Daniel 7:2In contextDaniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:13In contextI saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Aramaic dictionary
לֵילָא leleya · night
night
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.