TBESH · H3915
לַ֫יְלָה · lay.lah · night
1) night 1a) night (as opposed to day) 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
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lay.lah H3915
לַ֫יְלָה (lay.lah) means “night” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
לַ֫יְלָה Hebrew · H3915 233 tagged occurrences in 223 verses
Pronunciation guide: lah'-yil Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל; also לַיְלָה; from the same as H3883 (לוּל); properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV glosses: (mid-)night (season).
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How translators render H3915
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| night | 52 |
| by night | 28 |
| and night | 20 |
| at night | 13 |
| in the night | 13 |
| nights | 13 |
| the night | 13 |
| tonight | 9 |
| of the night | 8 |
| or night | 5 |
| that night | 5 |
| during the night | 4 |
| and the night | 3 |
| and at night | 2 |
| and by night | 2 |
| in a night | 2 |
| after night | 1 |
| and by the night | 1 |
| and during the night | 1 |
| and nights | 1 |
| and that night | 1 |
| as dark as night | 1 |
| as in the night | 1 |
| as on the night | 1 |
| because of a nocturnal | 1 |
| become night | 1 |
| but that night | 1 |
| but the night | 1 |
| fled by night | 1 |
| into night | 1 |
| into the night | 1 |
| last night | 1 |
| me in the night | 1 |
| night is to be a vigil | 1 |
| night long | 1 |
| nightfall | 1 |
| one night | 1 |
| one night however | 1 |
| or by night | 1 |
| or even in the night | 1 |
| overnight | 1 |
| so that night | 1 |
| through the night | 1 |
| to come in the night | 1 |
| with the night | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| by night | 40 |
| and night | 20 |
| in the night | 19 |
| nights | 14 |
| night | 12 |
| that night | 11 |
| all night | 6 |
| of the night | 6 |
| this night | 5 |
| all the night | 4 |
| and in the night | 4 |
| at midnight | 4 |
| nor night | 4 |
| to night | 4 |
| and it came to pass the same night | 3 |
| all that night | 2 |
| and by night | 2 |
| and it came to pass that night | 2 |
| as in the night | 2 |
| because in the night | 2 |
| in that night | 2 |
| the night | 2 |
| what of the night | 2 |
| a night | 1 |
| about midnight | 1 |
| also to night | 1 |
| also while it is yet night | 1 |
| and all that night | 1 |
| and all the night | 1 |
| and also the night | 1 |
| and it came to pass at midnight | 1 |
| and it came to pass that at midnight | 1 |
| and it is night | 1 |
| and over the night | 1 |
| and the night | 1 |
| as the night | 1 |
| at night | 1 |
| every night | 1 |
| for him all night | 1 |
| from the night | 1 |
| her all the night | 1 |
| here this night | 1 |
| him by night | 1 |
| in a night | 1 |
| in hither to night | 1 |
| in me in the night season | 1 |
| it night | 1 |
| lo let that night | 1 |
| me even the night | 1 |
| me in the night seasons | 1 |
| nor all the night | 1 |
| not and in the night season | 1 |
| not from thee but the night | 1 |
| not the night | 1 |
| not this night | 1 |
| of a night | 1 |
| on that night | 1 |
| or by night | 1 |
| so that night | 1 |
| that in the night | 1 |
| thee in the night | 1 |
| thee yea in the night | 1 |
| there that same night | 1 |
| therefore night | 1 |
| thine the night | 1 |
| till midnight | 1 |
| to me this night | 1 |
| to thee this night | 1 |
| until night | 1 |
| unto him the same night | 1 |
| unto night | 1 |
| unto us both by night | 1 |
| upon me by night | 1 |
| was on it by night | 1 |
| which by night | 1 |
| which came up in a night | 1 |
| whole nights | 1 |
| with her that night | 1 |
| with him by night | 1 |
| with night | 1 |
| with thee in the night | 1 |
| with thee this night | 1 |
| with thee to night | 1 |
| ye also here this night | 1 |
Verses containing H3915
Page 1 of 5. 223 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 1:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Read word by word - Genesis 1:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
Read word by word - Genesis 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
Read word by word - Genesis 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Read word by word - Genesis 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Read word by word - Genesis 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Read word by word - Genesis 8:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Read word by word - Genesis 14:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
Read word by word - Genesis 19:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
Read word by word - Genesis 19:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Read word by word - Genesis 19:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Read word by word - Genesis 19:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Read word by word - Genesis 20:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Read word by word - Genesis 26:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
Read word by word - Genesis 30:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
Read word by word - Genesis 30:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Read word by word - Genesis 31:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Read word by word - Genesis 31:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
Read word by word - Genesis 31:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Read word by word - Genesis 32:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.14
- Genesis 32:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.22
- Genesis 32:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.23
- Genesis 40:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.
Read word by word - Genesis 46:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
Read word by word - Exodus 10:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
Read word by word - Exodus 11:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
Read word by word - Exodus 12:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Read word by word - Exodus 12:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
Read word by word - Exodus 12:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
Read word by word - Exodus 12:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
Read word by word - Exodus 12:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
Read word by word - Exodus 12:42
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.
Read word by word - Exodus 13:21
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
Read word by word - Exodus 13:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.
Read word by word - Exodus 14:20
· BSB · 2 occurrences
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
Read word by word - Exodus 14:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Read word by word - Exodus 24:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Read word by word - Exodus 34:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Read word by word - Exodus 40:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
Read word by word - Leviticus 6:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.2
- Leviticus 8:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”
Read word by word - Numbers 9:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
Read word by word - Numbers 9:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
Read word by word - Numbers 11:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
Read word by word - Numbers 11:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
Read word by word - Numbers 14:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
Read word by word - Numbers 14:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
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