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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

H3915

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Strong's Number H3915 matches the Hebrew לַיִל (layil),
which occurs 233 times in 223 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 5 (2Sa 17:16–Psa 1:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - “Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, ‘Do not spend the night H3915 at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, or else the king and all the people who are with him will be [fn]destroyed.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - “Now therefore arise, go out and speak [fn]kindly to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, surely not a man will pass the night H3915 with you, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until [fn]it rained on them from the sky; and she [fn]allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night. H3915

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:5 - In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; H3915 and God said, “Ask what you wish Me to give you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19 - “This woman’s son died in the night, H3915 because she lay on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - “So she arose in the middle of the night H3915 and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - that Your eyes may be open toward this house night H3915 and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - “And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, H3915 that He may maintain the [fn]cause of His servant and the [fn]cause of His people Israel, [fn]as each day requires,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:8 - So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights H3915 to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14 - He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night H3915 and surrounded the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king arose in the night H3915 and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:21 - Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night H3915 and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but his [fn]army fled to their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - Then it happened that night H3915 that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when [fn]men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were [fn]dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night H3915 by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And [fn]they went by way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33 - Now these are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were [fn]engaged in their work day and night. H3915

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:3 - It came about the same night H3915 that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:7 - In that night H3915 God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:20 - that Your eye may be open toward this house day and night, H3915 toward the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:12 - Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night H3915 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 Box2Ch 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:9 - Then Jehoram crossed over with his commanders and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night H3915 and struck down the Edomites who were surrounding him and the commanders of the chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:14 - Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; H3915 therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6 - let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, H3915 on behalf of the sons of Israel Your servants, confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; I and my father’s house have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - And I arose in the night, H3915 I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my [fn]mind to do for Jerusalem and there was no animal with me except the animal on which I was riding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - So I went out at night H3915 by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Well and on to the [fn]Refuse Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - So I went up at night H3915 by the ravine and inspected the wall. Then I entered the Valley Gate again and returned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9 - But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night. H3915

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:22 - At that time I also said to the people, “Let each man with his servant spend the night within Jerusalem so that they may be a guard for us by night H3915 and a laborer by day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - When I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was [fn]confined at home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you, and they are coming to kill you at night.” H3915

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:12 - “And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night H3915
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - You, in Your great compassion,
Did not forsake them in the wilderness;
The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, H3915 to light for them the way in which they were to go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night H3915 or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - During that night H3915 [fn]the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:13 - Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights H3915 with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3 - “Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night H3915 which said, ‘A [fn]boy is conceived.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - “As for that night, H3915 let 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 BoxJob 3:7 - “Behold, let that night H3915 be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:13 - “Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, H3915
When deep sleep falls on men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - “By day they meet with darkness,
And grope at noon as in the night. H3915

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So am I allotted months of vanity,
And nights H3915 of trouble are appointed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - “They make night H3915 into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - “He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night H3915 he is chased away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - “The murderer arises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night H3915 he is as a thief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - “Terrors overtake him like a flood;
A tempest steals him away in the night. H3915

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - “At night H3915 it pierces my bones [fn]within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 - “In a dream, a vision of the night, H3915
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:20 - “In a moment they die, and at midnight H3915
People are shaken and pass away,
And the mighty are taken away without a hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:25 - “Therefore He knows their works,
And He overthrows them in the night, H3915
And they are crushed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:10 - “But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
Who gives songs in the night, H3915

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:20 - “Do not long for the night, H3915
When people [fn]vanish in their place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:2 - But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night. H3915

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