διανυκτερεύω
dianyktereúō · G1273 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to spend the night
To continue in an activity or state during the night
ExamplesLuke 6:12 Now it was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer with God.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀγρυπνέω agrypnéō · G69 · to be alert, to be on the lookout for, to be vigilant
- ἀγρυπνέω shares the core sense of remaining awake and watchful, often through the night. While διανυκτερεύω specifically denotes spending the entire night (in wakefulness or prayer), ἀγρυπνέω focuses on the sleepless vigilance aspect without necessarily specifying the full night duration. Both can describe nocturnal devotional activities.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To spend the night67.195
- Used of an activity extending through an entire night, as of Jesus going to the mountain and spending the whole night in prayer before choosing the twelve in Luke 6:12.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (opposed to διημερεύω); to spend the night, to pass the whole night, (cf. διά C. 1): ἐν…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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