לַ֫יְלָה
lay.lah
“night”
Definition
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל; also לַיְלָה; from the same as H3883 (לוּל);
- night 1a) night (as opposed to day) 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
לַ֫יְלָה appears 203 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
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.
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.”
“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
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