לַיְלָה laylah

Hebrew word for “night” · Strong’s H3915 · used 233 times in 223 verses

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Meaning

1) night; 1a) night (as opposed to day); 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

How it is translated

Glosses given for laylah in context, with how often each is used:

• night 191
• nights 20
• this night 17
• like night 2
• over the night 1
• will be night 1
• like a night 1

Where it is used

Also in 18 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 12 (6), Genesis 1 (4), Genesis 19 (4), Deuteronomy 9 (4), Genesis 31 (3), Genesis 32 (3), Numbers 22 (3), Joshua 8 (3), Judges 6 (3), Ruth 3 (3)

Forms

• לילה 83
• הלילה 57
• בלילה 42
• ולילה 26
• ובלילה 5
• לילות 4
• בלילות 4
• בליל 2
• כליל 2
• ליל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with laylah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יוֹמָם yomam “by day” 39
• קוּם qum “to arise” 29
• עָנָן anan “cloud” 14
• בֹּקֶר boqer “morning” 16
• שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 14
• עִם im “with” 20
• גַּם gam “also” 18
• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 15
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 22
• אוֹר or “light” 10
• אֱנוֹשׁ enosh “human” 14
• אַרְבָּעִים arbaim “forty” 10

Key verses

The verses using laylah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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,…
• Exodus 12:29 — And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the…
• Joshua 1:8 — This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is…
• 1 Samuel 15:11 — It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and…
• Psalms 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Psalms 77:2 — In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
• Psalms 88:1 — [A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried…
• Psalms 134:1 — [A Song of degrees.] Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
• Song of Solomon 5:2 — I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled…
• Isaiah 62:6 — I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
• Jeremiah 9:1 — Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jeremiah 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.