H3915: לַיִל
layil · pronounced lah'-yil · “night”
Definition
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV translates it as: (mid-)night (season).
Word origin: or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל; also לַיְלָה; from the same as H3883 (לוּל);
Extended definition
1a) night (as opposed to day)
1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3915 is translated
- night ×195
- nights ×19
- the night ×9
- a night ×6
- was a night of ×1
- nights of ×1
- will be night ×1
- a night of ×1
Bible verses with H3915 (layil)
Layil appears in 223 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
- Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
- Genesis 1:18
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
- Genesis 7:12
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Genesis 14:15
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
- Genesis 19:5
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
- Genesis 19:33
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
- Genesis 19:34
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- Genesis 19:35
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
- Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
- Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
- Genesis 30:15
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.
- Genesis 30:16
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
- Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Genesis 31:39
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
- Genesis 31:40
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
- Genesis 32:13
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
- Genesis 32:21
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
- Genesis 32:22
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
- Genesis 40:5
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
- Genesis 41:11
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 46:2
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
All 223 references
- Exodus 10:13
- Exodus 11:4
- Exodus 12:8
- Exodus 12:12
- Exodus 12:29
- Exodus 12:30
- Exodus 12:31
- Exodus 12:42
- Exodus 13:21
- Exodus 13:22
- Exodus 14:20
- Exodus 14:21
- Exodus 24:18
- Exodus 34:28
- Exodus 40:38
- Leviticus 6:9
- Leviticus 8:35
- Numbers 9:16
- Numbers 9:21
- Numbers 11:9
- Numbers 11:32
- Numbers 14:1
- Numbers 14:14
- Numbers 22:8
- Numbers 22:19
- Numbers 22:20
- Deuteronomy 1:33
- Deuteronomy 9:9
- Deuteronomy 9:11
- Deuteronomy 9:18
- Deuteronomy 9:25
- Deuteronomy 10:10
- Deuteronomy 16:1
- Deuteronomy 23:10
- Deuteronomy 28:66
- Joshua 1:8
- Joshua 2:2
- Joshua 4:3
- Joshua 8:3
- Joshua 8:9
- Joshua 8:13
- Joshua 10:9
- Judges 6:25
- Judges 6:27
- Judges 6:40
- Judges 7:9
- Judges 9:32
- Judges 9:34
- Judges 16:2
- Judges 16:3
- Judges 19:25
- Judges 20:5
- Ruth 1:12
- Ruth 3:2
- Ruth 3:8
- Ruth 3:13
- 1 Samuel 14:34
- 1 Samuel 14:36
- 1 Samuel 15:11
- 1 Samuel 15:16
- 1 Samuel 19:10
- 1 Samuel 19:11
- 1 Samuel 19:24
- 1 Samuel 25:16
- 1 Samuel 26:7
- 1 Samuel 28:8
- 1 Samuel 28:20
- 1 Samuel 28:25
- 1 Samuel 30:12
- 1 Samuel 31:12
- 2 Samuel 2:29
- 2 Samuel 2:32
- 2 Samuel 4:7
- 2 Samuel 7:4
- 2 Samuel 17:1
- 2 Samuel 17:16
- 2 Samuel 19:7
- 2 Samuel 21:10
- 1 Kings 3:5
- 1 Kings 3:19
- 1 Kings 3:20
- 1 Kings 8:29
- 1 Kings 8:59
- 1 Kings 19:8
- 2 Kings 6:14
- 2 Kings 7:12
- 2 Kings 8:21
- 2 Kings 19:35
- 2 Kings 25:4
- 1 Chronicles 9:33
- 1 Chronicles 17:3
- 2 Chronicles 1:7
- 2 Chronicles 6:20
- 2 Chronicles 7:12
- 2 Chronicles 21:9
- 2 Chronicles 35:14
- Nehemiah 1:6
- Nehemiah 2:12
- Nehemiah 2:13
- Nehemiah 2:15
- Nehemiah 4:9
- Nehemiah 4:22
- Nehemiah 6:10
- Nehemiah 9:12
- Nehemiah 9:19
- Esther 4:16
- Esther 6:1
- Job 2:13
- Job 3:3
- Job 3:6
- Job 3:7
- Job 4:13
- Job 5:14
- Job 7:3
- Job 17:12
- Job 20:8
- Job 24:14
- Job 27:20
- Job 30:17
- Job 33:15
- Job 34:20
- Job 34:25
- Job 35:10
- Job 36:20
- Psalms 1:2
- Psalms 6:6
- Psalms 16:7
- Psalms 17:3
- Psalms 19:2
- Psalms 22:2
- Psalms 32:4
- Psalms 42:3
- Psalms 42:8
- Psalms 55:10
- Psalms 74:16
- Psalms 77:2
- Psalms 77:6
- Psalms 78:14
- Psalms 88:1
- Psalms 90:4
- Psalms 91:5
- Psalms 92:2
- Psalms 104:20
- Psalms 105:39
- Psalms 119:55
- Psalms 119:62
- Psalms 121:6
- Psalms 134:1
- Psalms 136:9
- Psalms 139:11
- Psalms 139:12
- Proverbs 7:9
- Proverbs 31:15
- Proverbs 31:18
- Ecclesiastes 2:23
- Ecclesiastes 8:16
- Song of Solomon 3:1
- Song of Solomon 3:8
- Song of Solomon 5:2
- Isaiah 4:5
- Isaiah 15:1
- Isaiah 16:3
- Isaiah 21:8
- Isaiah 21:11
- Isaiah 21:12
- Isaiah 26:9
- Isaiah 27:3
- Isaiah 28:19
- Isaiah 29:7
- Isaiah 30:29
- Isaiah 34:10
- Isaiah 38:12
- Isaiah 38:13
- Isaiah 60:11
- Isaiah 62:6
- Jeremiah 6:5
- Jeremiah 9:1
- Jeremiah 14:17
- Jeremiah 16:13
- Jeremiah 31:35
- Jeremiah 33:20
- Jeremiah 33:25
- Jeremiah 36:30
- Jeremiah 39:4
- Jeremiah 49:9
- Jeremiah 52:7
- Lamentations 1:2
- Lamentations 2:18
- Lamentations 2:19
- Hosea 4:5
- Hosea 7:6
- Amos 5:8
- Obadiah 1:5
- Jonah 1:17
- Jonah 4:10
- Micah 3:6
- Zechariah 1:8
- Zechariah 14:7