H3915 לַיִל
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 224 KJV occurrences
לַיִל
layil · lah'-yil
Definition
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV Renderings
(mid-)night (season).
Derivation / Etymology
or (Isaiah 21:11) לֵיל; also לַיְלָה; from the same as H3883 (לוּל);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 224)
- Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Exodus 12:12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 9:18And 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 sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- 1 Samuel 15:11It 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 he cried unto the LORD all night.
- 2 Kings 19:35¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- Psalms 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
- Isaiah 34:10It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.