'Night' in the Bible
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
She also said to him, “We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.”
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Then Jacob woke up during the night and told himself, "Surely, the LORD is in this place and I never knew it!"
That night Laban took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob. He had marital relations with her.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me: ‘Watch yourself. Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.
When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one’s money was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our money, and we have brought it back with us.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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Related Words
- All-night (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Fortnight (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Intonight (3 instances in 5 translations)
- Knighthood (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Midnight (16 instances in 12 translations)
- Night's (13 instances in 1 translation)
- Night-hawk (2 instances in 6 translations)
- Night-lodge (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Night-monster (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Night-owl (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Night-visions (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Night-watch (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Night-watches (3 instances in 3 translations)
- Nightfall (10 instances in 4 translations)
- Nightly (5 instances in 2 translations)
- Nights (31 instances in 13 translations)
- Nighttime (5 instances in 2 translations)
- Overnight (19 instances in 6 translations)
- Tonight (33 instances in 13 translations)
- Tonightmares (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Untonight (3 instances in 4 translations)
- Yesterday-night (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Yesternight (4 instances in 3 translations)
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