# H3915 לַיִל

לַיִל (layil), Strong’s H3915: properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity KJV: (mid-)night (season).. Occurs 233 times.

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*layil* — properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity

KJV: (mid-)night (season).

Derived from [לוּל lûwl](https://besorah.bible/word/H3883) (a spiral step)

Occurs 233 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לַ֫יְלָה, לַ֫יִל 242 n.m. night

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5) — God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- [Genesis 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=14) — 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…
- [Genesis 1:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=16) — God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made…
- [Genesis 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18) — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 7:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=4) — In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing…
- [Genesis 7:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=12) — It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- [Genesis 8:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=22) — While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not…
- [Genesis 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=15) — He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…
- [Genesis 19:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=5) — 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…
- [Genesis 19:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=33) — They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when…