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:
2 Samuel 2:29: "walked all that night and passed over Jordan,"
2 Samuel 2:32: "and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day."
2 Samuel 4:7: "his head, and got them away through the plain all night."
2 Samuel 7:4: "And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came Nathan,"
2 Samuel 17:1: "and I will arise and pursue after David this night:"
2 Samuel 17:16: "saying, not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily"
2 Samuel 19:7: "thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse"
2 Samuel 21:10: "on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night."
1 Kings 3:5: "to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what"
1 Kings 3:19: "woman's child died in the night; because"
1 Kings 3:20: "And she arose at midnight, at midnight, and took my son from beside"
1 Kings 8:29: "toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which"
1 Kings 8:59: "the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause"
1 Kings 19:8: "forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."
2 Kings 6:14: "and a great host: by night, and compassed the city"
2 Kings 7:12: "And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, show"
2 Kings 8:21: "with rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about,"
2 Kings 19:35: "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, in the camp"
2 Kings 25:4: "and all the men of war fled by night of the gate between two walls,"
1 Chronicles 9:33: "they were employed in that work day and night."
1 Chronicles 17:3: "And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came Nathan,"
2 Chronicles 1:7: "In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said what"
2 Chronicles 6:20: "this house and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said"
2 Chronicles 7:12: "appeared to Solomon by night, and said thy prayer,"
2 Chronicles 21:9: "his chariots him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites"
2 Chronicles 35:14: "of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons"
Nehemiah 1:6: "pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel"
Nehemiah 2:12: "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with told"
Nehemiah 2:13: "And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon"
Nehemiah 2:15: "Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,"
Nehemiah 4:9: "a watch against and night, because of"
Nehemiah 4:22: "lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor on the day."
Nehemiah 6:10: "of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay"
Nehemiah 9:12: "them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar to give them light in"
Nehemiah 9:19: "to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein"
Esther 4:16: "drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens"
Esther 6:1: "On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded"
Job 2:13: "seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto"
Job 3:3: "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child"
Job 3:6: "As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined of the year,"
Job 3:7: "Lo, let that night be solitary, let no come"
Job 4:13: "In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on"
Job 5:14: "in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night."
Job 7:3: "months of vanity, and wearisome nights"
Job 17:12: "They change the night into day: the light is short because"
Job 20:8: "be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."
Job 24:14: "killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief."
Job 27:20: "on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night."
Job 30:17: "My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest."
Job 33:15: "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon in slumberings"
