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Lexicon :: Strong's H3915 - layil

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לַיִל
Transliteration
layil
Pronunciation
lah'-yil
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as לוּל (H3883)
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TWOT Reference: 1111

Strong’s Definitions

לַיִל layil, lah'-yil; or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל lêyl; also לַיְלָה laylâh; from the same as H3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:—(mid-)night (season).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 233x

The KJV translates Strong's H3915 in the following manner: night (205x), nights (15x), midnight (with H2677) (4x), season (3x), midnight (with H2676) (2x), night (with H1121) (2x), midnight (1x), midnight (with H8432) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 233x
The KJV translates Strong's H3915 in the following manner: night (205x), nights (15x), midnight (with H2677) (4x), season (3x), midnight (with H2676) (2x), night (with H1121) (2x), midnight (1x), midnight (with H8432) (1x).
  1. night

    1. night (as opposed to day)

    2. of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לַיִל layil, lah'-yil; or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל lêyl; also לַיְלָה laylâh; from the same as H3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:—(mid-)night (season).
STRONGS H3915: Abbreviations
לַ֫יְלָה, לַ֫יִל 242 noun masculineGenesis 40:5 night (Late Hebrew id.; MI15 (ב)ללה; Aramaic [H3916 לֵילָא], bdb053806, bdb053807; Arabic bdb053808, bdb053809; Ethiopic bdb053810all = night; Assyrian lîlâtu, evening DlHWB; meaning of √ dubious; form probably לילי, and ending הָ֯ radical, and not ה locative, NöM 127 DlProl. 128 Ges§ 90, 2. with R. Köii. p. 57, R. 1); — absolute לַ֫יְלָה Genesis 19:33 + 214 times + 2 times Qr. (see below); לָ֑יְלָה Genesis 1:5 + 3 times; לַ֫יִל Isaiah 16:3 + Proverbs 31:18; Lamentations 2:19 Kt (Qr לַיְלָה); לֵיל Isaiah 15:1 (twice in verse); Isaiah 21:1; construct לֵיל Exodus 12:42; Isaiah 30:29; plural absolute לֵילוֺת 1 Samuel 30:12 + 4 times; construct id., Isaiah 21:8 + 5 times; —
1. literally night, opposed to day, Genesis 8:22 (J), Deuteronomy 1:33 + very often (see יוֺם); alternation of day and night divinely ordained Genesis 1:5 (P), Jeremiah 33:20 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 33:25 +; מִיּוֺם עַדלֿ׳ Isaiah 38:12, 18 i.e. within one whole day; as close of day, עַדלֿ׳ 2 Chronicles 35:14; as time of sacred (לֵיל) חָג Isaiah 30:29; of suffering and weeping לֵילוֺת עָמָל Job 7:3, compare Psalm 6:7; Psalm 77:3 etc.; of pious desires, prayer, praise, meditation, etc (sometimes || by day) Isaiah 26:9; Job 35:10; Psalm 1:2; Psalm 22:3; Psalm 42:9; Psalm 77:7; Psalm 88:2; Psalm 92:3; Psalm 119:5 (twice in verse), compare Psalm 16:7; Psalm 17:8; of night-service in Temple Psalm 134:1; of sudden assault, or destruction, Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 6:5; Obadiah 5; Job 27:20; Job 34:20, 25; Job 36:20; divided into watches Psalm 90:4; לֵיל שִׁמֻּרִים Exodus 12:42 see below שׁמר; with number, denoting duration of time, †forty days and forty nights Genesis 7:4, 12; Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, 25; Deuteronomy 10:10; 1 Kings 19:8; three days and three nights (שְׁלשָׁה לֵילוֺת) 1 Samuel 30:12; Jonah 2:1; seven days and seven nights (שִׁבְעַת לֵילוֺת) Job 2:13†; חֲלוֺם הַלּ׳Genesis 20:3; Genesis 31:24 (both E), 1 Kings 3:5; מַרְאֹת הַלּ׳ Genesis 46:2 (E); חֶזְיוֺן ל׳ Job 20:8; Job 33:15, חֶזְיֹנוֺת ל׳ Job 4:13, חֲלוֺם חֲזוֺן ל׳ Isaiah 29:7 (compare Micah 3:6 below) †; בִּןלֿ׳ Jonah 4:10 (twice in verse) see בֵּן 8. Chiefly in adverbial phrase: — בַּחֲצִי הַלּ׳ at midnight Exodus 12:29 + (see חֲצִי, חָצוֺת), compare בְּתוֺךְ הַלּ׳ 1 Kings 3:20, בְּאִישׁוֺן ל׳ Proverbs 7:9; הַזֶּה בַּלּ׳ Exodus 12:8, 12 on this night (P; the night of which one is speaking); הַהוּא בַּלּ׳ on that night Genesis 19:35 (J) + often, (P only Numbers 14:1); הוּא בַּל׳ Genesis 19:33; Genesis 30:16; so הַלּ׳ alone 1 Samuel 14:34, but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Kit, compare Dr; Klo Bu read ליהוה; הַלּ׳ to-night Genesis 19:5, 34; Genesis 30:15 (all J), Numbers 22:8, 19 (E), Joshua 2:2; Joshua 4:3 (both J E), 2 Samuel 17:1, 16; 2 Samuel 19:8; Ruth 1:12; Ruth 3:2, 13, opposed to מָחָר tomorrow 1 Samuel 19:11; הַלּ׳ = this night just past, last night 1 Samuel 15:16 (compare Dr); כָּלהַֿלּ׳ all night Hosea 7:6 (opposed to בֹּקֶר), Exodus 14:20, 21 (J), Numbers 11:32; Joshua 10:9 (both J E), Judges 16:2 (twice in verse); Judges 19:25; 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Samuel 2:29, 32; 2 Samuel 4:7; opposed to כלהֿיום ההוא (of continuous action) 1 Samuel 19:24; 1 Samuel 28:20; Isaiah 62:6, opposed to יומם Psalm 78:14; בְּכָללֿ׳ Psalm 6:7 every night (probably); compare כָּלהַֿלֵּילוֺת Isaiah 21:8 all the nights (opposed to יוֺמָם); especially לַיְלָה by night Numbers 22:20 (E) Joshua 8:3 (JE), Deuteronomy 16:1; Numbers 9:16 (P) + 51 times; of these Genesis 14:15 and Exodus 13:21, 22 (J) + 25 times opposed to יוֺמָם, covering all the time; otherwise Judges 6:27 (opposed to יוֺמָם); לַיְלָה וָיוֺם night and day 1 Kings 8:29; Isaiah 27:3; Esther 4:16; less often לֵילוֺת Psalm 16:17; הַלּ׳ by night 2 Kings 25:4 (ל׳ in || Jeremiah 52:7), Zechariah 1:8; Nehemiah 4:16 (opposed to הַיּוֺם); בַּלּ׳ id., Jeremiah 6:5 + 18 times (chiefly late; often opposed to בַּיּוֺם, יוֺמָם, etc.); בַּלֵּילוֺת Psalm 92:3 (opposed to בַּבֹּקֶר, Psalm 134:1; Songs 3:1, 8; בְּלַיְלָה Nehemiah 9:19 (opposed to בְּיוֺמָם); בְּלֵיל Isaiah 15:1 (twice in verse) כַּל׳ as at night Job 5:14 (opposed to צָהֳרָ֑יִם).
2. figurative שִׁיתִי כַּלַיִל צִלֵּךְ Isaiah 16:8 simile of shadow of Zion as protection; more often in gloomy sense, of avenging calamity without divine guidance or comfort לַיְלָה מֵחָזוֺן Micah 3:6; personal distress Job 35:10; judgment perhaps also Job 36:20 (Ew De Di Da; night of death Bu; 'unintelligible' Siegf); מַהמִּֿלַּיְלָה מַהמִּֿלֵּיל Isaiah 21:11 i.e. what hour of the night of calamity is it? compare Isaiah 21:12 (opposed to בֹּקֶר).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 7:4; 7:12; 8:22; 14:15; 19:5; 19:33; 19:33; 19:34; 19:35; 20:3; 30:15; 30:16; 31:24; 40:5; 46:2

Exodus

12:8; 12:12; 12:29; 12:42; 12:42; 13:21; 13:22; 14:20; 14:21; 24:18; 34:28

Numbers

9:16; 11:32; 14:1; 22:8; 22:19; 22:20

Deuteronomy

1:33; 9:9; 9:11; 9:18; 9:25; 10:10; 16:1

Joshua

2:2; 4:3; 8:3; 10:9

Judges

6:27; 16:2; 19:25

Ruth

1:12; 3:2; 3:13

1 Samuel

14:34; 15:11; 15:16; 19:11; 19:24; 28:20; 30:12; 30:12; 31:12

2 Samuel

2:29; 2:32; 4:7; 17:1; 17:16; 19:8

1 Kings

3:5; 3:20; 8:29; 19:8

2 Kings

25:4

2 Chronicles

35:14

Nehemiah

4:16; 9:19

Esther

4:16

Job

2:13; 4:13; 5:14; 7:3; 20:8; 27:20; 33:15; 34:20; 34:25; 35:10; 35:10; 36:20; 36:20

Psalms

1:2; 6:7; 6:7; 16:7; 17:8; 22:3; 42:9; 77:3; 77:7; 78:14; 88:2; 90:4; 92:3; 92:3; 119:5; 134:1; 134:1

Proverbs

7:9; 31:18

Song of Songs

3:1; 3:8

Isaiah

15:1; 15:1; 15:1; 16:3; 16:8; 21:1; 21:8; 21:8; 21:11; 21:12; 26:9; 27:3; 29:7; 30:29; 30:29; 38:12; 38:18; 62:6

Jeremiah

6:5; 6:5; 33:20; 33:25; 52:7

Lamentations

2:19

Hosea

7:6

Obadiah

1:5

Jonah

2:1; 4:10

Micah

3:6; 3:6

Zechariah

1:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3915 matches the Hebrew לַיִל (layil),
which occurs 235 times in 223 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (Num 22:20–2Sa 17:1)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:20 - And God came to Balaam at night H3915 and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you shall you do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who goes before you on your way, to spy out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night H3915 and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - “When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh had cut with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights H3915; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - “Now it happened at the end of forty days and nights H3915, that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - “And I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and nights H3915; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Yahweh to provoke Him to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 -

“So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and the forty nights H3915, which I [fn]did because Yahweh had said He would destroy you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 -

“I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights H3915 like the first time, and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 -

“Keep the month of Abib and [fn]celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night H3915.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 -

“If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal H3915 emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not [fn]reenter the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:66 - “So your life shall [fn]hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night H3915 and day and shall not have any faith in your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night H3915, so that you may [fn]be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way successful, and then you will [fn]be prosperous.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:2 - And it was told to the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight H3915 to search out the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:3 - and command them, saying, ‘Carry for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firm, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight H3915.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 -

So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night H3915.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night H3915 among the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they set the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua went that night H3915 into the midst of the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:9 - So Joshua came upon them suddenly—he had gone up, marching all night H3915 from Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 -

Now it happened on the same night H3915 that Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull [fn]and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the [fn]Asherah that is beside it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night H3915.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:40 - And God did so that night H3915. So it was dry only on the fleece, but dew was on all the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 -

Now it happened the same night H3915 that Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:32 - “So now, arise by night H3915, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 -

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him arose by night H3915 and lay in wait against Shechem in four [fn]companies.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” so they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night H3915 at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night H3915, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light; then we will kill him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - But Samson lay until midnight H3915, and at midnight H3915 he arose and seized the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and brought them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought her out to them; and they knew her and abused her all night H3915 until morning, and they let her go at the [fn]breaking of dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:5 - “Then the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night H3915 because of me. They intended to kill me; instead, they violated my concubine, and she died.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:12 - “Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight H3915 and also bear sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:2 - “And now, is not Boaz our [fn]kinsman, with whose young women you were? Behold, he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor tonight H3915.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:8 - Then it happened in the middle of the night H3915 that the man was startled and [fn]bent forward; and behold, a woman was lying at his feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:13 - “Stay this night H3915, and it will be in the morning that, if he will [fn]redeem you, good; let him redeem you. But if he does not desire to [fn]redeem you, then I will redeem you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - And Saul said, “Scatter yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and slaughter it here and eat; and do not sin against Yahweh by eating with the blood.’” So all the people that night H3915 brought each one his ox [fn]with him and slaughtered it there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 -

Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night H3915 and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good in your eyes.” So the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from [fn]following Me and has not established My words.” And Samuel became angry and cried out to Yahweh all night H3915.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “Wait, and let me tell you what Yahweh spoke to me last night H3915.” And he said to him, “Speak!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - And Saul tried to [fn]pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he [fn]stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night H3915.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 -

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not make an escape for your life tonight H3915, tomorrow you will be put to death.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:24 - He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and [fn]lay down [fn]naked all that day and all that night H3915. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - “They were a wall to us both by night H3915 and by day, all the time we were with them shepherding the sheep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:7 - So David and Abishai came to the people by night H3915, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:8 -

Then Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night H3915; and he said, “Divine for me, please, and bring up for me whom I shall say to you.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:20 -

Then Saul quickly fell full length upon the ground and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; also there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no [fn]food all day and all night H3915.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:25 - And she brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and went away that night H3915.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:12 - And they gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit [fn]revived. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights H3915.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - so all the valiant men arose and walked all night H3915, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29 - But Abner and his men then went through the Arabah all that night H3915; so they crossed the Jordan, walked all morning, and came to Mahanaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - And they took up Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb which was in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men went all night H3915 until the day [fn]dawned at Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - Thus they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, and they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. And they took his head and went on the way leading to the Arabah all night H3915.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:4 -

Now it happened in the same night H3915, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:1 -

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight H3915.


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