Laylah לַ֫יְלָה

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Laylah
לַ֫יְלָה
Transliterationlaylah
Strong's numberH3915
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossnight
Occurrences233 in 223 verses
Most frequent inPsalms (27)

Laylah (Hebrew לַ֫יְלָה, Strong's H3915) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “night”. It occurs 233 times in 223 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVnight (205), nights (15), season (2), midnight (1), seasons (1)
BSBnight (176), nights (14), tonight (9), during the night (5), one night however (1), night long (1), overnight (1), because of a nocturnal (1), last night (1), one night (1), fled by night (1), nightfall (1), and 8 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Laylah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Hosea

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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