Dictionaries :: Night

Night:

nit.

1. In the Old Testament:

Figurative uses: The word "night" (laylah or layil is sometimes used figuratively in the Old Testament. Thus, Moses compares the brevity of time, the lapse of a thousand years, to "a watch in the night" (Ps 90:4). Adversity is depicted by it in such places as Job 35:10; compare Isa 8:20; Jer 15:9. Disappointment and despair are apparently depicted by it in the "burden of Dumah" (Isa 21:11,12); and spiritual blindness, coming upon the false prophets (Mic 3:6); again sudden and overwhelming confusion (Am 5:8; Isa 59:10 the King James Version, nesheph, "twilight" as in the Revised Version (British and American)).

2. In the New Testament:

On the lips of Jesus (Joh 9:4) it signifies the end of opportunity to labor; repeated in that touching little allegory spoken to His disciples when He was called to the grave of Lazarus (Joh 11:9,10). Paul also uses the figure in reference to the Parousia (Ro 13:12), where "night" seems to refer to the present aeon and "day" to the aeon to come. He also uses it in 1Th 5:5,7 where the status of the redeemed is depicted by "day," that of the unregenerate by "night," again, as the context shows, in reference to the Parousia. In Re 21:25 and 22:5, the passing of the "night" indicates the realization of that to which the Parousia looked forward, the establishment of the kingdom of God forever. See also Delitzsch, Iris, 35.

Written by Henry E. Dosker

See DAY AND NIGHT

Night: General Scriptures Concerning

Gen 1:5, 16, 18

Night: Meditations In

Psa 19:2; 77:6; 119:148; 139:11

Night: Worship In

Psa 134:1

Night: Jesus Prays All Night

Luk 6:12

Night: No Night in Heaven

Rev 21:25; 22:5

Night: Divided into Watches

Exd 14:24; Jdg 7:19; 1Sa 11:11; Neh 12:9; Psa 63:6; 119:148; Lam 2:19; Mat 14:25; Luk 12:38

Night: Divided into Hours

Act 23:23

Night: Used Figuratively

Isa 15:1; 21:11, 12; Jhn 9:4; Rom 13:12; 1Th 5:5

Night: The Darkness First Called

Gen 1:5

Night: Caused by God

Psa 104:20

Night: Belongs to God

Psa 74:16

Night: The Heavenly Bodies Designed to Separate Day From

Gen 1:14

Night: The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by

Gen 1:16-18; Jer 31:35

Night: Commenced at Sunset

Gen 28:11

Night: Continued until Sunrise

Psa 104:22; Mat 28:1; Mar 16:2

Night: Regular Succession Of

Established by covenant

Gen 8:22; Jer 33:20

Ordained for the glory of God

Psa 19:2

Night: Originally Divided into Three Watches

Lam 2:19; Jdg 7:19; Exd 14:24

Night: Divided into Four Watches by the Romans

Luk 12:38; Mat 14:25; Mar 13:35

Night: Frequently

Exceeding dark

Pro 7:9

Cold and frosty

Gen 31:40; Jer 36:30

Accompanied by heavy dew

Num 11:9; Jdg 6:38,40; Job 29:19; Sgs 5:2

Night: Unsuitable for Labour

Jhn 9:4

Night: Unsuitable for Travelling

Jhn 11:10

Night: Designed for Rest

Psa 104:23

Night: Wearisome to the Afflicted

Job 7:3,4

Night: Favourable to the Purposes of the Wicked

Gen 31:39; Job 24:14,15; Oba 1:5; 1Th 5:2

Night: Wild Beasts Go Forth in Search of Prey During

2Sa 21:10; Psa 104:21,22

Night: The Jews

Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during

Lev 19:13

Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during

Deu 21:23

In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation

Psa 6:6; 30:5; Joe 1:13

In affliction spent, in prayer

Psa 22:2

Often kept lamps burning during

Pro 31:18

Night: Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during

Gen 31:40; Luk 2:8

Night: Eastern fishermen continued their employment during

Luk 5:5; Jhn 21:3

Night: God Frequently

Revealed his will in

Gen 31:24; 46:2; Num 22:30; Dan 7:2

Visited his people in

1Ki 3:5; Psa 17:3

Executed his judgments in

Exd 12:12; 2Ki 19:35; Job 27:20; Dan 5:30

Night: Illustrative Of

Spiritual darkness

Rom 13:12

Seasons of severe calamities

Isa 21:12; Amo 5:8

Seasons of spiritual desertion

Sgs 3:1

Death

Jhn 9:4

Night:

SEE [DAY].