לַ֫יְלָה

lay.lah

Hebrew H3915 Noun, masculine 233 occurrences in 223 verses
לַ֫יְלָה night

1. night

a. night (as opposed to day)

b. of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

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Concordance 223 verses

  1. 2 Samuel 17:16 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙

    Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”

  2. 2 Samuel 19:7 הַלַּ֔יְלָה

    Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

  3. 2 Samuel 21:10 לָֽיְלָה׃

    And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

  4. 1 Kings 3:5 הַלָּ֑יְלָה

    One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

  5. 1 Kings 3:19 לָ֑יְלָה

    During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.

  6. 1 Kings 3:20 הַלַּ֜יְלָה

    So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

  7. 1 Kings 8:29 לַ֣יְלָה

    May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

  8. 1 Kings 8:59 וָלָ֑יְלָה

    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

  9. 1 Kings 19:8 לַ֔יְלָה

    So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

  10. 2 Kings 6:14 לַ֔יְלָה

    the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.

  11. 2 Kings 7:12 לַ֗יְלָה

    So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”

  12. 2 Kings 8:21 לַ֗יְלָה

    So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.

  13. 2 Kings 19:35 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה

    And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

  14. 2 Kings 25:4 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙

    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

  15. 1 Chronicles 9:33 וָלַ֛יְלָה

    Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.

  16. 1 Chronicles 17:3 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה

    But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

  17. 2 Chronicles 1:7 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה

    That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

  18. 2 Chronicles 6:20 וָלַ֔יְלָה

    May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

  19. 2 Chronicles 7:12 בַּלָּ֑יְלָה

    the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  20. 2 Chronicles 21:9 לַ֔יְלָה

    So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.

  21. 2 Chronicles 35:14 לָ֑יְלָה

    Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering up burnt offerings and fat until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

  22. Nehemiah 1:6 וָלַ֔יְלָה

    let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

  23. Nehemiah 2:12 לַ֗יְלָה

    I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.

  24. Nehemiah 2:13 לַ֗יְלָה

    So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.

  25. Nehemiah 2:15 לַ֔יְלָה

    so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

  26. Nehemiah 4:9 וָלַ֖יְלָה

    So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

  27. Nehemiah 4:22 הַלַּ֛יְלָה

    At that time I also said to the people, “Let every man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they can stand guard by night and work by day.”

  28. Nehemiah 6:10 וְלַ֖יְלָה

    Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you— by night they are coming to kill you!”

  29. Nehemiah 9:12 לַ֔יְלָה

    You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

  30. Nehemiah 9:19 בְּלַ֙יְלָה֙

    You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

  31. Esther 4:16 לַ֣יְלָה

    “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

  32. Esther 6:1 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה

    That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

  33. Job 2:13 לֵיל֑וֹת

    Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

  34. Job 3:3 וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה

    “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

  35. Job 3:6 הַלַּ֥יְלָה

    If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

  36. Job 3:7 הַלַּ֣יְלָה

    Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.

  37. Job 4:13 לָ֑יְלָה

    In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  38. Job 5:14 וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה

    They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

  39. Job 7:3 וְלֵיל֥וֹת

    So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

  40. Job 17:12 לַ֭יְלָה

    They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

  41. Job 20:8 לָֽיְלָה׃

    He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

  42. Job 24:14 וּ֝בַלַּ֗יְלָה

    When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  43. Job 27:20 לַ֝֗יְלָה

    Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

  44. Job 30:17 לַ֗יְלָה

    Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

  45. Job 33:15 לַ֗יְלָה

    In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

  46. Job 34:20 לָ֥יְלָה

    They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

  47. Job 34:25 לַ֝֗יְלָה

    Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

  48. Job 35:10 בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃

    But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

  49. Job 36:20 הַלָּ֑יְלָה

    Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

  50. Psalms 1:2 וָלָֽיְלָה׃

    But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

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