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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 27
    New Testament books
  • 10
    spellings

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.

The other 15 New Testament books never use the word.

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,

    Matthew 2:14

    • νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: by night
  • After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

    Matthew 4:2

    • 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.

    Matthew 12:40

    • 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.

    Matthew 14:25

    • νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
  • At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

    Matthew 25:6

    • 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.’

    Matthew 26:31

    • 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.”

    Matthew 26:34

    • 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.’

    Matthew 28:13

    • 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.

    Mark 4:27

    • 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.

    Mark 5:5

    • 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,

    Mark 6:48

    • 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.”

    Mark 14:30

    • 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.

    Luke 2:8

    • 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.

    Luke 2:37

    • 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.”

    Luke 5:5

    • 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?’

    Luke 12:20

    • 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.

    Luke 17:34

    • 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?

    Luke 18:7

    • 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.

    Luke 21:37

    • 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.”

    John 3:2

    • 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.

    John 9:4

    • νύξnuxnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: night
  • But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

    John 11:10

    • νυκτίnuktinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: night
  • As soon as he had received the morsel, Judas went out into the night.

    John 13:30

    • 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.

    John 19:39

    • 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.

    John 21:3

    • 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,

    Acts 5:19

    • 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.

    Acts 9:24

    • 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.

    Acts 9:25

    • 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.

    Acts 12:6

    • 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.”

    Acts 16:9

    • 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.

    Acts 16:33

    • 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.

    Acts 17:10

    • 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.

    Acts 18:9

    • 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.

    Acts 20:31

    • 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.”

    Acts 23:11

    • 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.

    Acts 23:23

    • νυκτόςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: night
  • So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.

    Acts 23:31

    • 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.

    Acts 26:7

    • νύκταnuktanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: night
  • For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me

    Acts 27:23

    • 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.

    Acts 27:27

    • 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.

    Romans 13:12

    • 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,

    1 Corinthians 11:23

    • 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.

    1 Thessalonians 2:9

    • 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.

    1 Thessalonians 3:10

    • 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.

    1 Thessalonians 5:2

    • 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.

    1 Thessalonians 5:5

    • νυκτὸςnuktosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of night
  • For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

    1 Thessalonians 5:7

    • 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.

    2 Thessalonians 3:8

    • 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.

    1 Timothy 5:5

    • 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.

    2 Timothy 1:3

    • 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!”

    Revelation 4:8

    • 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.

    Revelation 7:15

    • 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.

    Revelation 8:12

    • 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.

    Revelation 12:10

    • 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.”

    Revelation 14:11

    • 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.

    Revelation 20:10

    • 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.

    Revelation 21:25

    • 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.

    Revelation 22:5

    • 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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