Gematria of Night
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “night” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 464 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 5
- Occurrences
- 464
- Distinct values
- 5
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “night”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
First appearance ·Genesis 1:5בראשית א:הלָיְלָה
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
First appearance ·Genesis 1:2בראשית א:בוְחֹשֶׁךְ
properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
First appearance ·1 Samuel 30:17שמואל א ל:יזמֵהַנֶּשֶׁף
{Lael an Israelite}
First appearance ·Daniel 2:19דניאל ב:יטלֵילְיָא
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of night?
The Tanakh renders “night” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ליל = 70, ערב = 272, חשך = 328, and 2 more.
How do you say night in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “night”; the most frequent are ליל (layil), 233 times; ערב (ʻereb), 134 times; חשך (chôshek), 80 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.