Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3915
לַ֫יְלָה
lay.lah · “night”
Used 235 times across 30 books
Definition
1) night
1a) night (as opposed to day)
1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
1a) night (as opposed to day)
1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)
Where it appears
Genesis25
Exodus18
Leviticus2
Numbers9
Deuteronomy9
Joshua7
Judges12
Ruth4
1 Samuel14
2 Samuel8
1 Kings6
2 Kings5
1 Chronicles2
2 Chronicles5
Nehemiah9
Esther2
Job17
Psalms28
Proverbs4
Ecclesiastes2
Song of Solomon3
Isaiah18
Jeremiah12
Lamentations4
Hosea2
Amos1
Obadiah1
Jonah3
Micah1
Zechariah2
In the text
Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.Genesis 1:14And 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 1:16And 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 1:18And 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 7:4For 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 7:12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Genesis 14:15And 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 19:5And 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 19:33And 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.
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