{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3915",
  "lemma": "לַיִל",
  "transliteration": "layil",
  "definition": "properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity",
  "kjv": "(mid-)night (season).",
  "occurrences": 233,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H3883",
      "lemma": "לוּל",
      "transliteration": "lûwl",
      "meaning": "a spiral step",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3883"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "לַ֫יְלָה, לַ֫יִל 242 n.m. night"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:5",
      "text": "God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:14",
      "text": "God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:16",
      "text": "God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:18",
      "text": "and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 7:4",
      "text": "In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 7:12",
      "text": "It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:22",
      "text": "While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:15",
      "text": "He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:5",
      "text": "They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:33",
      "text": "They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=33"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3915",
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