Greek noun (feminine) · G3571
νύξ
nyxnoox
night
61 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nýx
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3571is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 27New Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3571
"night" (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: (mid-)night.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nyx is rendered "night". It stands 61 times in the Greek text, across twelve books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:14So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,
Matthew 2:14νυκτὸς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Sixteen of the word's sixty-one uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- night44
- by night11
- nights3
- of night2
- the evening1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 61, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- νυκτὸς29
- νυκτὶ12
- νὺξ5
- νύκτα4
- νυκτός4
- νύκτας3
- νύκτας.¶1
- νυκτί1
- νύξ1
- νύξ.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular33N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular13N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular7N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural4N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular4N-ASF
Matthew
nine uses
So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
- νύκταςnuktasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: nights
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- νύκταςnuktasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: nights
- νύκτας.¶nuktasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: nights
During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of night
Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
and instructed them: “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
Mark
four uses
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
- νύκταnuktanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: night
Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
He could see that the disciples were straining to row, because the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea. He intended to pass by them,
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Luke
seven uses
And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
- νύκταnuktanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: night
“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
- νυκτόςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.
- νύκταςnuktasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: the evening
John
six uses
He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
- νύξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
- νυκτίnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
As soon as he had received the morsel, Judas went out into the night.
- νύξ.¶nuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Acts
sixteen uses
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
- νυκτόςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
- νύκταnuktanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: night
The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.
- νυκτόςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to realize as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.
- νύκταnuktanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: night
For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
- νὺξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Romans
one use
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
- νὺξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
1 Corinthians
one use
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
1 Thessalonians
six uses
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: By night
Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking from your faith.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- νυκτὶnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of night
For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
2 Thessalonians
one use
nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
1 Timothy
one use
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
2 Timothy
one use
I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Revelation
eight uses
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
- νὺξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.
- νυκτόςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
- νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
- νὺξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
- νὺξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
