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Lexicon :: Strong's G3571 - nyx

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νύξ
Transliteration
nyx (Key)
Pronunciation
noox
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:1123,661

Strong’s Definitions

νύξ nýx, noox; a primary word; "night" (literally or figuratively):—(mid-)night.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x

The KJV translates Strong's G3571 in the following manner: night (63x), midnight (with G3319) (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x
The KJV translates Strong's G3571 in the following manner: night (63x), midnight (with G3319) (2x).

  1. night

  2. metaph. the time when work ceases

    1. the time of death

    2. the time for deeds of sin and shame

    3. the time of moral stupidity and darkness

    4. the time when the weary and also the drunken give themselves up to slumber

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
νύξ nýx, noox; a primary word; "night" (literally or figuratively):—(mid-)night.
STRONGS G3571:
νύξ, genitive νυκτός, ἡ (from a root meaning 'to disappear'; cf. Latinnox, German nacht, English night; Curtius, § 94) (the Sept. for לַיִל and לַיְלָה) (from Homer down), night: Mark 6:48; Acts 16:33; Acts 23:23; John 13:30; Revelation 21:25; Revelation 22:5; ἵνα ἡ νύξ μή φοαινη τό τρίτον αὐτῆς, i. e. that the night should want a third part of the light which the moon and the stars give it, Revelation 8:12 (others understand this of the want of the light etc. for a third part of the night's duration); genitive νυκτός, by night (Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26), Matthew 2:14; Matthew 28:13; Luke 2:8 (but note here the article; some make τῆς νυκτός depend on φυλακάς); John 3:2; Acts 9:25; 1 Thessalonians 5:7; νυκτός καί ἡμέρας, Mark 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Timothy 5:5 (where see Ellicott on the order); ἡμέρας καί νυκτός, Luke 18:7; Acts 9:24; Revelation 4:8; Revelation 7:15; Revelation 12:10, etc.; μέσης νυκτός, at midnight, Matthew 25:6; in answer to the question when: ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτί, this night, Luke 12:20; Luke 17:34; Acts 27:23; τῇ νυκτί ἐκείνῃ, Acts 12:6; τῇ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτί, Acts 23:11; in answer to the question how long: νύκτα καί ἡμέραν, Luke 2:37; Acts 20:31; Acts 26:7; differently in Mark 4:27 (night and day, namely, applying himself to what lie is here said to be doing); τάς νύκτας, during the nights, every night, Luke 21:37; νύκτας τεσσαράκοντα, Matthew 4:2; τρεῖς, Matthew 12:40; διά τῆς νυκτός, see διά, A. II. 1 b.; δι' ὅλης (τῆς) νυκτός, the whole night through, all night, Luke 5:5; ἐν νυκτί, when he was asleep, Acts 18:9; (κλέπτης) ἐν νυκτί, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, and Rec. in 2 Peter 3:10; ἐν τῇ νυκτί, in (the course of) the night, John 11:10; ἐν τῇ νυκτί ταύτῃ, Matthew 26:31, 34; Mark 14:30; ἐν τῇ νυκτί ἡ κτλ. 1 Corinthians 11:23; κατά μέσον τῆς νυκτός, about midnight, Acts 27:27. Metaphorically, the time when work ceases, i. e. the time of death, John 9:4; the time for deeds of sin and shame, the time of moral stupidity and darkness, Romans 13:12; the time when the weary and also the drunken give themselves up to slumber, put for torpor and sluggishness, 1 Thessalonians 5:5.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:14; 4:2; 12:40; 25:6; 26:31; 26:34; 28:13
Mark
4:27; 5:5; 6:48; 14:30
Luke
2:8; 2:37; 5:5; 12:20; 17:34; 18:7; 21:37
John
3:2; 9:4; 11:10; 13:30
Acts
9:24; 9:25; 12:6; 16:33; 18:9; 20:31; 23:11; 23:23; 26:7; 27:23; 27:27
Romans
13:12
1 Corinthians
11:23
1 Thessalonians
2:9; 3:10; 5:2; 5:5; 5:7
1 Timothy
5:5
2 Peter
3:10
Revelation
4:8; 7:15; 8:12; 12:10; 21:25; 22:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3571 matches the Greek νύξ (nyx),
which occurs 217 times in 208 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 3 / 5 (1Ki 3:20–Psa 74:16)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14 - So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33 - Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:3 - But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:7 - In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:20 - that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:12 - Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:9 - Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:14 - And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6 - let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9 - And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:22 - I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:12 - By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:13 - And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3 - “Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:7 - Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see the eyelids of the morning,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - so I am allotted months of emptiness,
and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - They make night into day:
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:15 - In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - The murderer rises before it is light,
that he may kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terrors overtake him like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:25 - Thus, knowing their works,
he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:20 - Do not long for the night,
when peoples vanish in their place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:2 - but his delight is in the law[fn] of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:6 - I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:7 - I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:3 - You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night,
you have tested me, and you will find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:2 - Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:2 - O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:4 - For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[fn] as by the heat of summer. Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:3 - My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:8 - By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - Day and night they go around it
on its walls,
and iniquity and trouble are within it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:16 - Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

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