Strong's #3915: layil (pronounced lah'-yil)
or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}; also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:--((mid-))night (season).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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layil / lêyl / layelâh
1) night
1a) night (as opposed to day)
1b) of gloom, protective shadow (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from the same as H3883
Usage:
This word is used 233 times:
Numbers 14:14: "of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night."
Numbers 22:8: "unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring again, as the LORD"
Numbers 22:19: "ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say"
Numbers 22:20: "came unto Balaam at night, and said the men come"
Deuteronomy 1:33: "a place to pitch your tents by night, to show you by what way ye should go,"
Deuteronomy 9:9: "forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor"
Deuteronomy 9:11: "at the end of forty days and forty nights, gave"
Deuteronomy 9:18: "forty days nights: I did neither eat bread, nor"
Deuteronomy 9:25: "forty days nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD"
Deuteronomy 10:10: "forty and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that"
Deuteronomy 16:1: "thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night."
Deuteronomy 23:10: "not by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of"
Deuteronomy 28:66: "before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:"
Joshua 1:8: "out of thy mouth; therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do"
Joshua 2:2: "there came in hither tonight of the children of Israel to search out"
Joshua 4:3: "stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge"
Joshua 8:3: "men of valor, and sent them away by night."
Joshua 8:9: "of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people."
Joshua 8:13: "on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley."
Joshua 10:9: "from all night."
Judges 6:25: "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's"
Judges 6:27: "of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night."
Judges 6:40: "did so that night: for it was upon the fleece"
Judges 7:9: "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto get thee down"
Judges 9:32: "Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that thee, and lie in wait"
Judges 9:34: "the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four"
Judges 16:2: "And they compassed for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all"
Judges 16:2: "of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day,"
Judges 16:3: "And Samson lay till midnight, midnight, and arose at midnight,"
Judges 16:3: "till midnight, and arose at midnight, at midnight, the doors"
Judges 19:25: "unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day"
Judges 20:5: "against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain"
Ruth 1:12: "hope, if I should have a husband also tonight, and should also bear sons;"
Ruth 3:2: "he winnoweth barley tonight in the threshingfloor."
Ruth 3:8: "And it came to pass at midnight, at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold,"
Ruth 3:13: "Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, let him do the kinsman's part:"
1 Samuel 14:34: "brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there."
1 Samuel 14:36: "Let us go down after the Philistines by night, them until the morning light,"
1 Samuel 15:11: "and he cried unto the LORD all night."
1 Samuel 15:16: "the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on."
1 Samuel 19:10: "into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night."
1 Samuel 19:11: "not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain."
1 Samuel 19:24: "that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul"
1 Samuel 25:16: "a wall unto us both by night and all the while"
1 Samuel 26:7: "came to the people by night: Saul lay sleeping"
1 Samuel 28:8: "him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit,"
1 Samuel 28:20: "no bread all the day, nor all the night."
1 Samuel 28:25: "and went away that night."
1 Samuel 30:12: "three days and three nights."
1 Samuel 31:12: "arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul"
