לַיִל layil

Meaning

properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity

In the King James Version: (mid-)night (season).

Derivation: or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל; also לַיְלָה; from the same as H3883 (לוּל);

Where it is used

• 2 Chronicles 35:14 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.
• Nehemiah 1:6 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.
• Nehemiah 2:12 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.
• Nehemiah 2:13 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.
• Nehemiah 2:15 so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
• Nehemiah 4:9 So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
• Nehemiah 4:22 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.”
• Nehemiah 6:10 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!”
• Nehemiah 9:12 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.
• Nehemiah 9:19 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.
• Esther 4:16 “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!”
• Esther 6:1 That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
• Job 2:13 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.
• Job 3:3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
• Job 3:6 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.
• Job 3:7 Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
• Job 4:13 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
• Job 5:14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
• Job 7:3 So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
• Job 17:12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
• Job 20:8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
• Job 24:14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
• Job 27:20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
• Job 30:17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
• Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
• Job 34:20 They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
• Job 34:25 Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
• Job 35:10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
• Job 36:20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
• Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
• Psalms 6:6 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
• Psalms 16:7 I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.
• Psalms 17:3 You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
• Psalms 19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
• Psalms 22:2 I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
• Psalms 32:4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Psalms 42:3 My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
• Psalms 42:8 The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
• Psalms 55:10 Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
• Psalms 74:16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
• Psalms 77:2 In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
• Psalms 77:6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
• Psalms 78:14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
• Psalms 88:1 A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
• Psalms 90:4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
• Psalms 91:5 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
• Psalms 92:2 to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
• Psalms 104:20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
• Psalms 105:39 He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
• Psalms 119:55 In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
• Psalms 119:62 At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.
• Psalms 121:6 The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
• Psalms 134:1 A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
• Psalms 136:9 the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Psalms 139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
• Psalms 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
• Proverbs 7:9 at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
• Proverbs 31:15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
• Proverbs 31:18 She sees that her gain is good, and her lamp is not extinguished at night.
• Ecclesiastes 2:23 Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.