nyx · night

What it means

nyx (νύξ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “night”.

"By night".

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. The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Night: the time of darkness, between sunset and sunrise; in the genitive, ‘by night’. Figuratively, the present time set against the day that is coming.

• “By night”: what is done in the dark John 3:2Luke 2:8Acts 16:33
• “And it was night” John 13:30
• “The night in which he was being handed over” 1 Corinthians 11:23Mark 14:30
• “Three days and three nights” Matthew 12:40
• Figurative: “The night is far gone”; where there will be no night Romans 13:121 Thessalonians 5:2Revelation 21:25

How we translate it

“Night” 58 times and “nights” 3. The time expressions are rendered in ordinary English: “by night”, “at night”, “night and day”, “this night”. With the word for ‘middle’ it becomes “in the middle of the night” (Matthew 25:6).

How it is translated

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

• night ×58
• nights ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Mark×4
• Luke×7
• John×6
• Acts×16
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×6
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Revelation×8

• Matthew 2:14

  And he got up, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

• Matthew 4:2

  And after fasting forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

• Matthew 12:40

  For just as Jonah was in the belly 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.

• Matthew 14:25

  And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

• Matthew 25:6

  But in the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Look, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

• Matthew 26:31

  Then Jesus says to them, “You will all fall away because of me on this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Matthew 26:34

  Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you that on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

• Matthew 28:13

  saying, “Say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were sleeping.’

• Mark 4:27

  and sleep and rise night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows tall, he does not know how.

• Mark 5:5

  And always, night and day, among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

• Mark 6:48

  And seeing them straining at the rowing, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them, walking on the sea; and he meant to pass by them.

• Mark 14:30

  And Jesus says to him, “Truly I tell you that you today, this night, before the rooster crows twice, will deny me three times.”

• Luke 2:8

  And there were shepherds in that same region, living out in the fields and keeping watch by night over their flock.

• Luke 2:37

  and she was a widow until she was eighty-four years old. She did not leave the temple, serving God with fastings and petitions night and day.

• Luke 5:5

  And Simon answered and said, “Master, through the whole night we worked hard and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the nets.”

• Luke 12:20

  But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

• Luke 17:34

  I tell you, on this night there will be two on one bed; the one will be taken and the other will be left.

• Luke 18:7

  And will God not surely bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay long over them?

• Luke 21:37

  Now during the days he was teaching in the temple, but at night he would go out and spend the night on the mount called the Mount of Olives.

• John 3:2

  He came to him by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

• John 9:4

  We must carry out the works of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

• John 11:10

  But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

• John 13:30

  So after receiving the piece of bread, he went out at once. And it was night.

• John 19:39

  And Nicodemus also came, the one who had first come to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras.

• John 21:3

  Simon Peter says to them, “I am going fishing.” They say to him, “We also are coming with you.” They went out and got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing.

• Acts 5:19

  But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and, bringing them out, he said,

• Acts 9:24

  but their plot became known to Saul. And they were even watching the gates day and night so that they might kill him;

• Acts 9:25

  but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a basket, letting him down through the wall.

• Acts 12:6

  And when Herod was about to bring him out, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were keeping watch over the prison.

• Acts 16:9

  And a vision appeared to Paul during the night: a certain Macedonian man was standing and urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

• Acts 16:33

  And he took them in that hour of the night and washed them from their wounds, and he and all his family were immersed immediately.

• Acts 17:10

  And the brothers at once sent away both Paul and Silas by night to Berea; and they, on arriving, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

• Acts 18:9

  And the Lord said at night through a vision to Paul, “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not be silent,

• Acts 20:31

  Therefore keep watch, remembering that for three years night and day I did not cease to warn each one with tears.

• Acts 23:11

  And on the following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage; for as you have testified to the things about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”

• Acts 23:23

  And calling two of the centurions, he said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, from the third hour of the night;

• Acts 23:31

  So the soldiers, according to what had been ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

• Acts 26:7

  to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, earnestly serving God night and day; concerning this hope, King, I am accused by Jews.

• Acts 27:23

  For this night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve,

• Acts 27:27

  And when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven across in the Adriatic, about the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them.

And 21 more times.