Hebrew word · H3915
לַ֫יְלָה
layelah
night
Appears 233 times in 223 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
Where it appears
Genesis · 25
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Genesis 1:5 לָ֑יְלָה night
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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Genesis 1:14 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
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Genesis 1:16 הַלַּ֔יְלָה the night
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
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Genesis 1:18 וּבַלַּ֔יְלָה and over the night
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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Genesis 7:4 לָ֑יְלָה night[s]
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
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Genesis 7:12 לָֽיְלָה׃ night[s]
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
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Genesis 8:22 וָלַ֖יְלָה and night
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
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Genesis 14:15 לַ֛יְלָה night
During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Genesis 19:5 הַלָּ֑יְלָה this night
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
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Genesis 19:33 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
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Genesis 19:34 הַלַּ֗יְלָה this night
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
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Genesis 19:35 בַּלַּ֧יְלָה in the night
So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
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Genesis 20:3 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
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Genesis 26:24 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
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Genesis 30:15 הַלַּ֔יְלָה this night
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
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Genesis 30:16 בַּלַּ֥יְלָה in the night
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
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Genesis 31:24 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
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Genesis 31:39 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
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Genesis 31:40 בַּלָּ֑יְלָה in the night
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
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Genesis 32:13 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
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Genesis 32:21 בַּלַּֽיְלָה־ in the night
So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
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Genesis 32:22 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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Genesis 40:5 בְּלַ֣יְלָה in a night
both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
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Genesis 41:11 בְּלַ֥יְלָה in a night
One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.
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Genesis 46:2 הַלַּ֔יְלָה the night
And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
Exodus · 18
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Exodus 10:13 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
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Exodus 11:4 הַלַּ֔יְלָה the night
So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
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Exodus 12:8 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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Exodus 12:12 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
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Exodus 12:29 הַלַּ֗יְלָה the night
Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
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Exodus 12:30 לַ֗יְלָה night
During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
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Exodus 12:31 לַ֗יְלָה night
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
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Exodus 12:42 לֵ֣יל הַלַּ֤יְלָה [was] a night of, the night
Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.
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Exodus 13:21 וְלַ֛יְלָה וָלָֽיְלָה׃ and night
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
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Exodus 13:22 לָ֑יְלָה night
Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.
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Exodus 14:20 הַלָּ֑יְלָה הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ the night
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
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Exodus 14:21 הַלַּ֔יְלָה the night
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
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Exodus 24:18 לָֽיְלָה׃ פ night[s]
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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Exodus 34:28 לַ֔יְלָה night[s]
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
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Exodus 40:38 לַ֖יְלָה night
For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
Leviticus · 2
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Leviticus 6:9 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ the night
“Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
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Leviticus 8:35 וָלַ֙יְלָה֙ and night
You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”
Numbers · 9
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Numbers 9:16 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
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Numbers 9:21 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
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Numbers 11:9 לָ֑יְלָה night
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
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Numbers 11:32 הַלַּ֜יְלָה the night
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
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Numbers 14:1 בַּלַּ֥יְלָה in the night
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
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Numbers 14:14 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
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Numbers 22:8 הַלַּ֔יְלָה this night
“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
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Numbers 22:19 הַלָּ֑יְלָה this night
So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
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Numbers 22:20 לַיְלָה֒ night
That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
Deuteronomy · 9
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Deuteronomy 1:33 לַ֗יְלָה night
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
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Deuteronomy 9:9 לַ֔יְלָה night[s]
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
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Deuteronomy 9:11 לָ֑יְלָה night[s]
And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
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Deuteronomy 9:18 לַ֔יְלָה night[s]
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
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Deuteronomy 9:25 הַלַּ֖יְלָה the night[s]
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
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Deuteronomy 10:10 לָ֑יְלָה night[s]
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
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Deuteronomy 16:1 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
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Deuteronomy 23:10 לָ֑יְלָה night
If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
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Deuteronomy 28:66 לַ֣יְלָה night
So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
Joshua · 7
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Joshua 1:8 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
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Joshua 2:2 הַלַּ֛יְלָה this night
And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
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Joshua 4:3 הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ ס this night
and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
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Joshua 8:3 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
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Joshua 8:9 בַּלַּ֥יְלָה in the night
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
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Joshua 8:13 בַּלַּ֥יְלָה in the night
So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
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Joshua 10:9 הַלַּ֕יְלָה the night
After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua caught them by surprise.
Judges · 12
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Judges 6:25 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
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Judges 6:27 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
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Judges 6:40 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
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Judges 7:9 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
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Judges 9:32 לַ֔יְלָה night
Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
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Judges 9:34 לָ֑יְלָה night
So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
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Judges 16:2 הַלַּ֖יְלָה הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ the night
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
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Judges 16:3 הַלַּיְלָה֒ הַלַּ֗יְלָה the night
But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
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Judges 19:25 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ the night
But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
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Judges 20:5 לָ֑יְלָה night
And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
Ruth · 4
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Ruth 1:12 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ this night
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
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Ruth 3:2 הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ this night
Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
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Ruth 3:8 הַלַּ֔יְלָה the night
At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
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Ruth 3:13 הַלַּ֗יְלָה this night
Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
1 Samuel · 14
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1 Samuel 14:34 הַלַּ֖יְלָה this night
Then he said, “Go among the troops and tell them, ‘Each man must bring me his ox or his sheep, slaughter them in this place, and then eat. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.’” So that night everyone brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
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1 Samuel 14:36 לַ֜יְלָה night
And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”
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1 Samuel 15:11 הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ the night
“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
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1 Samuel 15:16 הַלָּ֑יְלָה this night
“Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.
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1 Samuel 19:10 בַּלַּ֥יְלָה in the night
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David eluded him and the spear struck the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
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1 Samuel 19:11 הַלַּ֔יְלָה this night
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
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1 Samuel 19:24 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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1 Samuel 25:16 לַ֖יְלָה night
They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
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1 Samuel 26:7 לַיְלָה֒ night
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
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1 Samuel 28:8 לָ֑יְלָה night
So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”
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1 Samuel 28:20 הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ the night
Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
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1 Samuel 28:25 בַּלַּ֥יְלָה on the night
She served it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. And that night they got up and left.
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1 Samuel 30:12 לֵילֽוֹת׃ ס nights
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
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1 Samuel 31:12 הַלַּיְלָה֒ the night
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
2 Samuel · 8
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2 Samuel 2:29 הַלַּ֣יְלָה the night
And all that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, marched all morning, and arrived at Mahanaim.
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2 Samuel 2:32 הַלַּ֗יְלָה the night
And they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.
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2 Samuel 4:7 הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ the night
They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.
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2 Samuel 7:4 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,
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2 Samuel 17:1 הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ this night
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
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2 Samuel 17:16 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ this night
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.’”
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2 Samuel 19:7 הַלַּ֔יְלָה this night
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!”
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2 Samuel 21:10 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
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.
1 Kings · 6
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1 Kings 3:5 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
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1 Kings 3:19 לָ֑יְלָה night
During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
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1 Kings 3:20 הַלַּ֜יְלָה the night
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.
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1 Kings 8:29 לַ֣יְלָה night
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.
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1 Kings 8:59 וָלָ֑יְלָה and night
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,
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1 Kings 19:8 לַ֔יְלָה night[s]
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.
2 Kings · 5
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2 Kings 6:14 לַ֔יְלָה night
the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.
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2 Kings 7:12 לַ֗יְלָה night
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.’”
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2 Kings 8:21 לַ֗יְלָה night
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.
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2 Kings 19:35 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
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!
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2 Kings 25:4 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ this night
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,
1 Chronicles · 2
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1 Chronicles 9:33 וָלַ֛יְלָה and night
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.
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1 Chronicles 17:3 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
2 Chronicles · 5
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2 Chronicles 1:7 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
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2 Chronicles 6:20 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
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.
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2 Chronicles 7:12 בַּלָּ֑יְלָה in the night
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.
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2 Chronicles 21:9 לַ֔יְלָה night
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.
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2 Chronicles 35:14 לָ֑יְלָה night
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 · 9
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Nehemiah 1:6 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
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.
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Nehemiah 2:12 לַ֗יְלָה night
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.
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Nehemiah 2:13 לַ֗יְלָה night
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.
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Nehemiah 2:15 לַ֔יְלָה night
so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
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Nehemiah 4:9 וָלַ֖יְלָה and night
So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
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Nehemiah 4:22 הַלַּ֛יְלָה the night
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.”
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Nehemiah 6:10 וְלַ֖יְלָה and night
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!”
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Nehemiah 9:12 לַ֔יְלָה night
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.
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Nehemiah 9:19 בְּלַ֙יְלָה֙ at night
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 · 2
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Esther 4:16 לַ֣יְלָה night
“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!”
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Esther 6:1 בַּלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
Job · 17
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Job 2:13 לֵיל֑וֹת nights
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.
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Job 3:3 וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה and the night
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
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Job 3:6 הַלַּ֥יְלָה the night
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.
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Job 3:7 הַלַּ֣יְלָה the night
Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
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Job 4:13 לָ֑יְלָה [the] night
In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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Job 5:14 וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה and like <the> night
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
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Job 7:3 וְלֵיל֥וֹת and nights of
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
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Job 17:12 לַ֭יְלָה night
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
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Job 20:8 לָֽיְלָה׃ [the] night
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
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Job 24:14 וּ֝בַלַּ֗יְלָה and in the night
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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Job 27:20 לַ֝֗יְלָה night
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
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Job 30:17 לַ֗יְלָה night
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
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Job 33:15 לַ֗יְלָה [the] night
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
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Job 34:20 לָ֥יְלָה [the] night
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
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Job 34:25 לַ֝֗יְלָה night
Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
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Job 35:10 בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃ in the night
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
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Job 36:20 הַלָּ֑יְלָה the night
Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Psalms · 28
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Psalm 1:2 וָלָֽיְלָה׃ and night
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
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Psalm 6:6 לַ֭יְלָה night
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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Psalm 16:7 לֵ֝יל֗וֹת nights
I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.
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Psalm 17:3 לַּ֗יְלָה night
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.
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Psalm 19:2 וְלַ֥יְלָה לְּ֝לַ֗יְלָה and night, to night
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
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Psalm 22:2 וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה and night
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
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Psalm 32:4 וָלַיְלָה֮ and night
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
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Psalm 42:3 וָלָ֑יְלָה and night
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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Psalm 42:8 וּ֭בַלַּיְלָה and in the night
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.
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Psalm 55:10 וָלַ֗יְלָה and night
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
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Psalm 74:16 לָ֑יְלָה night
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
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Psalm 77:2 לַ֣יְלָה night
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.
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Psalm 77:6 בַּ֫לָּ֥יְלָה in the night
At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
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Psalm 78:14 הַ֝לַּ֗יְלָה the night
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
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Psalm 88:1 בַלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
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.
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Psalm 90:4 בַלָּֽיְלָה׃ in the night
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
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Psalm 91:5 לָ֑יְלָה night
You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
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Psalm 92:2 בַּלֵּילֽוֹת׃ in the nights
to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
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Psalm 104:20 לָ֑יְלָה night
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
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Psalm 105:39 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
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Psalm 119:55 בַלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
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Psalm 119:62 לַ֗יְלָה [the] night
At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.
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Psalm 121:6 בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃ in the night
The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
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Psalm 134:1 בַּלֵּילֽוֹת׃ in the nights
A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
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Psalm 136:9 בַּלָּ֑יְלָה in the night
the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.
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Psalm 139:11 וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה and [will be] night
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
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Psalm 139:12 וְ֭לַיְלָה and night
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Proverbs · 3
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Proverbs 7:9 לַ֝֗יְלָה [the] night
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
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Proverbs 31:15 לַ֗יְלָה night
She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
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Proverbs 31:18 בַלַּ֣יְלָה in the night
She sees that her gain is good, and her lamp is not extinguished at night.
Ecclesiastes · 2
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Ecclesiastes 2:23 בַּלַּ֖יְלָה in the night
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.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16 וּבַלַּ֔יְלָה and in <the> night
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
Song of Songs · 3
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Song of Songs 3:1 בַּלֵּיל֔וֹת in the nights
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
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Song of Songs 3:8 בַּלֵּילּֽוֹת׃ ס in the nights
All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night.
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Song of Songs 5:2 לָֽיְלָה׃ night
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Isaiah · 18
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Isaiah 4:5 לָ֑יְלָה night
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
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Isaiah 15:1 בְּלֵ֞יל בְּלֵ֛יל in a night
This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
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Isaiah 16:3 כַלַּ֛יִל like <the> night
“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
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Isaiah 21:8 הַלֵּילֽוֹת׃ the nights
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
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Isaiah 21:11 מִלַּ֔יְלָה מִלֵּֽיל׃ [is] from [the] night
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
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Isaiah 21:12 לָ֑יְלָה night
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
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Isaiah 26:9 בַּלַּ֔יְלָה in the night
My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
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Isaiah 27:3 לַ֥יְלָה night
I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
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Isaiah 28:19 וּבַלָּ֑יְלָה and in the night
As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
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Isaiah 29:7 לַ֔יְלָה [the] night
All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
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Isaiah 30:29 כְּלֵ֖יל like a night of
You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
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Isaiah 34:10 לַ֤יְלָה night
It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
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Isaiah 38:12 לַ֖יְלָה night
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
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Isaiah 38:13 לַ֖יְלָה night
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
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Isaiah 60:11 וָלַ֖יְלָה and night
Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.
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Isaiah 62:6 הַלַּ֛יְלָה the night
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
Jeremiah · 12
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Jeremiah 6:5 בַלָּ֔יְלָה in the night
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”
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Jeremiah 9:1 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
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Jeremiah 14:17 לַ֥יְלָה night
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
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Jeremiah 16:13 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
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Jeremiah 31:35 לָ֑יְלָה night
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
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Jeremiah 33:20 הַלָּ֑יְלָה וָלַ֖יְלָה the night, and night
“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
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Jeremiah 33:25 וָלָ֑יְלָה and night
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
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Jeremiah 36:30 בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃ in the night
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
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Jeremiah 39:4 לַ֤יְלָה night
When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
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Jeremiah 49:9 בַּלַּ֖יְלָה in the night
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
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Jeremiah 52:7 לַ֗יְלָה night
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
Lamentations · 3
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Lamentations 1:2 בַּלַּ֗יְלָה in the night
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
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Lamentations 2:18 וָלַ֔יְלָה and night
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
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Lamentations 2:19 בַלַּ֗יְלָה in the night
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
Hosea · 2
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Hosea 4:5 לָ֑יְלָה night
You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
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Hosea 7:6 הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ the night
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Amos · 1
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Amos 5:8 לַ֣יְלָה night
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
Obadiah · 1
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Obadiah 1:5 לַ֔יְלָה night
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
Jonah · 3
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Jonah 1:17 לֵילֽוֹת׃ nights
Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
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Jonah 4:10 לַ֥יְלָה לַ֥יְלָה a night
But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
Micah · 1
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Micah 3:6 לַ֤יְלָה night
Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
Zechariah · 2
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Zechariah 1:8 הַלַּ֗יְלָה the night
I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
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Zechariah 14:7 לָ֑יְלָה night
It will be a unique day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.
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