Word

νύξ

nýx · G3571 · Greek · 61 occurrences

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Meanings

night

The period between sunset and sunrise

Examples
Matthew 12:40 for just as JONAH WAS IN THE STOMACH OF THE SEA MONSTER FOR THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.
Matthew 25:6 “But at midnight there finally was a shout: ‘Behold, the groom! Come out to meet him.’
night

Darkness of the night in contrast with daylight (see ἡμέρα (hēméra, G2250), sense 4)

Examples
John 9:4 “We must carry out the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
John 13:30 So after receiving the piece of bread, he left immediately; and it was night.
John 19:39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras weight.
a long time

(Ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ νύκτας τεσσεράκοντα - literally, forty days and forty nights) Possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a relatively long period of time

Examples
Matthew 4:2 And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
day and night, always, constantly, continually

(Expressions, literally: night and day, day and night, respectively) Duration of time, either continuous or episodic, but without limits

Examples
Mark 5:5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and cutting himself with stones.
Luke 2:37 and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She did not leave the temple grounds, serving night and day with fasts and prayers.
Luke 18:7 now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them?

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

12 occurrences in 5 groups

οὗτοςthis 6
ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 2
τρεῖςthree 2
τεσσαράκονταforty 1
τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατοςfourteenth 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

παραδίδωμιto hand over, to betray 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
εἰμίto be 1
ἔρχομαιto come 1
προκόπτωto advance, to increase 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐκεῖthere 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐνin 13
διάthrough 10

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 3 groups

φυλακήprison, jail, watch 3
μέσοςin the midst, among 2
ὥραhour, time 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word

לַיִל layil · H3915 · night: Standard Hebrew equivalent denoting the time period from sunset to sunrise, covering both literal nighttime and figurative uses of darkness or nocturnal context.

Semantic domains 4 entries

Night14.59: Describing the flight to Egypt, Matthew 2:14 states “So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt,” where “night” renders this noun.
Night67.192: Describing Jesus walking on the water, Matthew 14:25 states “And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea,” where “the night” renders this same noun, here in a temporal-marker sense specifying which watch it was.
Day and night, always, constantly, continually67.92a: Describing Jonah's time in the great fish, Matthew 12:40 states “for just as JONAH WAS IN THE STOMACH OF THE SEA MONSTER THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights,” where “nights” (in “three days and three nights”) renders this same noun as part of a fixed expression.
A long time67.93: Rebuking their unbelief, Matthew 26:34 states Jesus said to Peter, “Truly I say to you that this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times,” where “night” renders this same noun, listed here under a further Louw-Nida entry for extended duration alongside its ordinary temporal sense.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

νύξnýx · G3571διανυκτερεύω dianyktereúō · G1273 · to spend the night · 1×ἔννυχον énnychon · G1773 · at night, in the night · 1×νυχθήμερον nychthḗmeron · G3574 · a night and a day · 1×

Also from the root νύξ

μεσονύκτιον mesonýktion · G3317 · midnight · 4×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon genitive νυκτός, ἡ (from a root meaning 'to disappear'; cf. Latinnox, German nacht,…

genitive νυκτός, ἡ (from a root meaning 'to disappear'; cf. Latinnox, German nacht, English night; Curtius, § 94) (the Sept. for לַיִל and לַיְלָה) (from Homer down), night: Mk 6:48; Acts 16:33; Acts 23:23; Jn 13:30; Rev 21:25; Rev 22:5; ἵνα ἡ νύξ μή φοαινη τό τρίτον αὐτῆς, i. e. that the night should want a third part of the light which the moon and the stars give it, Rev 8:12 (others understand this of the want of the light etc. for a third part of the night's duration); genitive νυκτός, by night (Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26), Mt 2:14; Mt 28:13; Lk 2:8 (but note here the article; some make τῆς νυκτός depend on φυλακάς); Jn 3:2; Acts 9:25; 1 Thess 5:7; νυκτός καί ἡμέρας, Mk 5:5; 1 Thess 2:9; 1 Thess 3:10; 1 Tim 5:5 (where see Ellicott on the order); ἡμέρας καί νυκτός, Lk 18:7; Acts 9:24; Rev 4:8; Rev 7:15; Rev 12:10, etc.; μέσης νυκτός, at midnight, Mt 25:6; in answer to the question when: ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτί, this night, Lk 12:20; Lk 17:34; Acts 27:23; τῇ νυκτί ἐκείνῃ, Acts 12:6; τῇ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτί, Acts 23:11; in answer to the question how long: νύκτα καί ἡμέραν, Lk 2:37; Acts 20:31; Acts 26:7; differently in Mk 4:27 (night and day, namely, applying himself to what lie is here said to be doing); τάς νύκτας, during the nights, every night, Lk 21:37; νύκτας τεσσαράκοντα, Mt 4:2; τρεῖς, ; διά τῆς νυκτός, see διά, A. II. 1 b.; δι' ὅλης (τῆς) νυκτός, the whole night through, all night, Lk 5:5; ἐν νυκτί, when he was asleep, Acts 18:9; (κλέπτης) ἐν νυκτί, 1 Thess 5:2, and Rec. in 2 Pet 3:10; ἐν τῇ νυκτί, in (the course of) the night, Jn 11:10; ἐν τῇ νυκτί ταύτῃ, Mt 26:31, Mt 26:34; Mk 14:30; ἐν τῇ νυκτί ἡ κτλ. 1 Cor 11:23; κατά μέσον τῆς νυκτός, about midnight, Acts 27:27. Metaphorically, the time when work ceases, i. e. the time of death, Jn 9:4; the time for deeds of sin and shame, the time of moral stupidity and darkness, Rom 13:12; the time when the weary and also the drunken give themselves up to slumber, put for torpor and sluggishness, 1 Thess 5:5.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Darkness7 occurrences Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young16 occurrences Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour39 occurrences

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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