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 2 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.
- Numbers 22:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 1:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 10:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 23:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 23.11
- Deuteronomy 28:66
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
Read word by word - Joshua 1:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
Read word by word - Joshua 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
Read word by word - Joshua 4:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
Read word by word - Joshua 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
Read word by word - Joshua 8:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
Read word by word - Joshua 10:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua caught them by surprise.
Read word by word - Judges 6:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
Read word by word - Judges 6:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
Read word by word - Judges 6:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
Read word by word - Judges 7:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
Read word by word - Judges 9:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
Read word by word - Judges 9:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
Read word by word - Judges 16:2
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
Read word by word - Judges 16:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
Read word by word - Judges 19:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
Read word by word - Judges 20:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
Read word by word - Ruth 1:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
Read word by word - Ruth 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
Read word by word - Ruth 3:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
Read word by word - Ruth 3:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 14:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.’” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 14:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 19:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David eluded him and the spear struck the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 19:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 19:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 26:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She served it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. And that night they got up and left.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 30:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 31:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 2:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And all that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, marched all morning, and arrived at Mahanaim.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 2:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 4:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 17:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
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