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 3 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.
- 2 Samuel 17:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 19:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.8
- 2 Samuel 21:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:59
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 19:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 9:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 17:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 1:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 21:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 35:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering up burnt offerings and fat until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 1:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 2:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 2:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 2:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 4:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.3
- Nehemiah 4:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time I also said to the people, “Let every man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they can stand guard by night and work by day.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.16
- Nehemiah 6:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”
Read word by word - Nehemiah 9:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 9:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
Read word by word - Esther 4:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
Read word by word - Esther 6:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
Read word by word - Job 2:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
Read word by word - Job 3:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
Read word by word - Job 3:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
Read word by word - Job 3:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
Read word by word - Job 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Read word by word - Job 5:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Read word by word - Job 7:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
Read word by word - Job 17:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
Read word by word - Job 20:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Read word by word - Job 24:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Read word by word - Job 27:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
Read word by word - Job 30:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
Read word by word - Job 33:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
Read word by word - Job 34:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
Read word by word - Job 34:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
Read word by word - Job 35:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Read word by word - Job 36:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Read word by word - Psalms 1:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
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