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H3915לַ֫יְלָהlay.lah

nightPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 25
  2. 18
  3. 2
  4. 9
  5. 9
  6. 7
  7. 12
  8. 4
  9. 14
  10. 8
  11. 6
  12. 5
  13. 2
  14. 5
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. 9
  17. 2
  18. 17
  19. 28
  20. 3
  21. 2
  22. 3
  23. 18
  24. 12
  25. 3
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 2
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 1
  31. 1
  32. 3
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 2
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

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233 occurrences in 223 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Numbers 22:20

    And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him: 'If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.'

    לַיְלָה֒ lay.Lah “night”

  2. Deuteronomy 1:33

    Who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.'

    לַ֗יְלָה Lay.lah “night”

  3. Deuteronomy 9:9

    When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

    לַ֔יְלָה Lay.lah “night[s]”

  4. Deuteronomy 9:11

    And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

    לָ֑יְלָה La.ye.lah “night[s]”

  5. Deuteronomy 9:18

    And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him.

    לַ֔יְלָה Lay.lah “night[s]”

  6. Deuteronomy 9:25

    So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

    הַלַּ֖יְלָה (לַּ֖יְלָה) Lay.lah “night[s]”

  7. Deuteronomy 10:10

    Now I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me that time also; the LORD would not destroy thee.

    לָ֑יְלָה La.ye.lah “night[s]”

  8. Deuteronomy 16:1

    Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God; for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

    לָֽיְלָה׃ La.ye.lah “night”

  9. Deuteronomy 23:11

    If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp.

    לָ֑יְלָה La.ye.lah “night”

  10. Deuteronomy 28:66

    And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.

    לַ֣יְלָה Lay.lah “night”

  11. 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 written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good su

    וָלַ֔יְלָה (לַ֔יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  12. Joshua 2:2

    And it was told the king of Jericho, saying: 'Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the land.'

    הַלַּ֛יְלָה (לַּ֛יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  13. Joshua 4:3

    and command ye them, saying: Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood, twelve stones made ready, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.'

    הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ (לָּֽיְלָה) La.ye.lah “night”

  14. Joshua 8:3

    So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them forth by night.

    לָֽיְלָה׃ La.ye.lah “night”

  15. Joshua 8:9

    And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

    בַּלַּ֥יְלָה (לַּ֥יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  16. Joshua 8:13

    So the people set themselves in array, even all the host that was on the north of the city, their rear lying in wait on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the vale.

    בַּלַּ֥יְלָה (לַּ֥יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  17. Joshua 10:9

    Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night.

    הַלַּ֕יְלָה (לַּ֕יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  18. Judges 6:25

    And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him: 'Take thy father's bullock, and the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

    בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (לַּ֣יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  19. Judges 6:27

    Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken unto him; and it came to pass, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

    לָֽיְלָה׃ La.ye.lah “night”

  20. Judges 6:40

    And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

    בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (לַּ֣יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  21. Judges 7:9

    And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him: 'Arise, get thee down upon the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand.

    בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (לַּ֣יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”

  22. Judges 9:32

    Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field.

    לַ֔יְלָה Lay.lah “night”

  23. Judges 9:34

    And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

    לָ֑יְלָה La.ye.lah “night”

  24. Judges 16:2

    And it was told the Gazites, saying: 'Samson is come hither.' And they compassed him in, and lay in wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying: 'Let be till morning light, then we will kill him.'

    הַלַּ֖יְלָה (לַּ֖יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ (לַּ֙יְלָה֙) Lay.lah “night”

  25. Judges 16:3

    And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before H

    הַלַּיְלָה֒ (לַּיְלָה֒) lay.Lah “night”הַלַּ֗יְלָה (לַּ֗יְלָה) Lay.lah “night”