lun · spend the night

What it means

lun (לוּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spend the night”.

Lodge; stay. A word with the same letters means "grumble".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stay in a place through the night, to sleep or to keep watch.
2. For something to remain until morning, when it should have gone earlier.
3. To complain in a low voice against someone, in discontent.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To spend the night, lodge; from there to stay, remain. In another form (niphal or hiphil), to grumble, complain against someone. BDB: to stop, usually over night; by implication, to stay; figuratively, to complain, murmur.

• Spending the night in a place Genesis 28:11Ruth 3:13
• “Where you spend the night, I will spend the night” Ruth 1:16
• What must not remain until morning Exodus 23:18Leviticus 19:13
• Israel grumbles in the wilderness Exodus 16:2Numbers 14:27
• In poetry: “in the evening weeping lodges” Psalms 30:5Psalms 91:1

Historical and cultural background

The law commands that “The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning” (Leviticus 19:13), that is, he is paid the same day.

How we translate it

“Spend the night” 34 times, “spent the night” 14, “spends the night” 4, “lodge” 4, “lodges” 3; “grumbled” 7 and “grumble” 6 in the wilderness (“The grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against me”, Numbers 14:27). In the laws, “remain” or “stay overnight” until morning (Leviticus 19:13).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• spend the night ×34
• spent the night ×14
• grumbled ×7
• grumble ×6
• remain ×5
• lodge ×4
• spends the night ×4
• lodges ×3
• Spend ×1
• lodged ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×5
• Judges×13
• Ruth×3
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×8
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Joel×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 19:2

  He said, “Look now, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, we will spend the night in the square.”

• Genesis 24:23

  and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

• Genesis 24:25

  She also said to him, “We have both straw and fodder in plenty, and also room to spend the night.”

• Genesis 24:54

  He and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they rose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my lord.”

• Genesis 28:11

  He came upon the place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and lay down in that place.

• Genesis 31:54

  Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread; they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.

• Genesis 32:13

  He spent the night there that night, and he took from what had come into his hand a gift for Esau his brother:

• Genesis 32:21

  So the gift passed on ahead of him, while he spent the night that night in the camp.

• Exodus 15:24

  The people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

• Exodus 16:2

  And all the community of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

• Exodus 16:7

  and in the morning you will see the glory of YHWH, because he has heard your grumblings against YHWH. And as for us, what are we that you grumble against us?”

• Exodus 17:3

  The people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why is it you brought us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my livestock with thirst?”

• Exodus 23:18

  You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my feast shall not remain until morning.

• Exodus 34:25

  You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover shall not remain overnight until the morning.

• Leviticus 19:13

  You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning.

• Numbers 14:2

  And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or in this wilderness, if only we had died!

• Numbers 14:27

  “How long shall I bear with this evil community that they grumble against me? The grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against me, I have heard.

• Numbers 14:29

  In this wilderness your corpses shall fall, and all of you who were counted in all your number, from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

• Numbers 14:36

  And the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, and who returned and made all the community grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land,

• Numbers 16:11

  Therefore you and all your community are the ones gathered together against YHWH; and Aaron, what is he, that you grumble against him?”

• Numbers 16:41

  But on the next day all the community of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of YHWH.”

• Numbers 17:5

  And the man whom I choose, his staff shall sprout; and I will silence from upon me the grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against you.”

• Numbers 22:8

  And he said to them, “Spend the night here tonight, and I will bring back to you word, as YHWH speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

• Deuteronomy 16:4

  And no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, and none of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening on the first day shall remain all night until morning.

• Deuteronomy 21:23

  his corpse shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on that day, for one who is hanged is a curse of Elohim; and you shall not make unclean your ground that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

• Joshua 3:1

  Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they spent the night there before they crossed.

• Joshua 4:3

  and command them, saying, ‘Carry for yourselves from here, from the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests stood firm, twelve stones, and bring them across with you and leave them in the lodging place where you spend the night tonight.’”

• Joshua 6:11

  So he had the ark of YHWH go around the city, circling it once; and they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.

• Joshua 8:9

  So Joshua sent them, and they went to the place of ambush and stayed between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; and Joshua spent that night among the people.

• Joshua 9:18

  The sons of Israel did not strike them, because the chiefs of the community had sworn to them by YHWH, the Elohim of Israel. And all the community grumbled against the chiefs.

• Judges 18:2

  So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, and spent the night there.

• Judges 19:4

  And his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, detained him, and he stayed with him three days; and they ate and drank and spent the night there.

• Judges 19:6

  So they sat down and ate, the two of them together, and drank; and the father of the young woman said to the man, “Please consent to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”

• Judges 19:7

  And the man arose to go, but his father-in-law pressed him, and he turned back and spent the night there.

• Judges 19:9

  And the man arose to go, he and his concubine and his young man; but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, “Look, please, the day has waned toward evening; spend the night, please. Look, the day is ending; spend the night here, and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you can rise early for your journey and go to your tent.”

• Judges 19:10

  But the man was not willing to spend the night; he arose and went and came as far as opposite Jebus, that is Jerusalem; and with him were a pair of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

• Judges 19:11

  They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent, and the young man said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusite and spend the night in it.”

• Judges 19:13

  And he said to his young man, “Come, and let us approach one of the places and spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah.”

• Judges 19:15

  And they turned aside there to go in to spend the night in Gibeah; and he went in and sat down in the square of the city, but there was no one taking them into the house to spend the night.

• Judges 19:20

  And the old man said, “Peace to you. Only let all your needs be on me; only do not spend the night in the square.”

And 43 more times.