alone
•
1 S 14:34
, but
del.
Ö
We Ki
t,
cf.
D
r;
Klo Bu
read
ליהוה
;
הַלּ׳
to-night
•
Gn 19:5
,
34
;
30:15
(all
J
),
Nu 22:8
,
19
(
E
),
Jos 2:2
;
4:3
(both JE),
2 S 17:1
,
16
;
19:8 Ru 1:1
2;
3:2
,
13
,
opp.
מָחָר
to-morrow
1 S 19:1
1;
הַלּ׳
=
this night
just past,
last night
1 S 15:16 Zc 1:
8;
כָּל־הַלּ׳
all night
Ho 7:6
(
opp.
בֹּקֶר
),
Ex 14:20
,
21
(
J
),
Nu 11:32 Jos 10:9
(both JE),
Ju 16:2
(×2);
19:25 1 S 15:1
1;
31:12 2 S 2:29
,
32
;
4:7
;
opp.
כל־היום ההוא
(of continuous action)
1 S 19:24
;
28:20 Is 62:
6,
opp.
יומם
ψ 78:14
;
בְּכָל־ל׳
ψ 6:7
every night
(prob.);
cf.
כָּל־הַלֵּילֹות
Is 21:8
all the nights
(
opp.
יֹומָם
)
•
; especially
לַיְלָה
by night
Nu 22:20
(
E
)
Jos 8:3
(JE),
Dt 16:1 Nu 9:16
(
P
)
+
51 times; of these
Gn 14:15
and
Ex 13:21
,
22
(
J
)
+
25 times
opp.
יֹומָם
, covering all the time; otherwise
Ju 6:27
(
opp.
יֹומָם
);
לַיְלָה וָיֹום
night and day
1 K 8:29 Is 27:3 Est 4:1
6; less often
לֵילֹות
ψ 16:7
;
הַלּ׳
by night
•2 K 25:4
(
ל׳
in
||
Je 52:
7),
Zc 1:8 Ne 4:16
(
opp.
הַיֹּום
)
•
;
בַּלּ׳
id.
,
Je 6:5
+
18 times (chfly late; often
opp.
בַּיֹּום
,
יֹומָם
, etc.);
בַּלֵּילֹות
•
ψ 92:3
(
opp.
בַּבֹּקֶר
),
134:1 Ct 3:
1,
8
;
בְּלַיְלָה
Ne 9:19
(
opp.
בְּיֹומָם
);
בְּלֵיל
Is 15:1
(×2);
כַּל׳
as at night
Jb 5:14
(
opp.
צָהֳרָ˜יִם
)
•
.
2.
fig.
שִׁיתִי כַּלַיִל צִלֵּךְ
Is 16:3
sim.
of shadow of Zion as protection; more often in gloomy sense, of avenging calamity without divine guidance or comfort
לַיְלָה מֵחָזֹון
Mi 3:
6; personal distress
Jb 35:10
; judgment perhaps also
Jb 36:20
(
Ew De Di D
a; night of death
Bu
; ‘unintelligible’
Siegf
);
מַה־מִּלַּיְלָה מַה־מִּלֵּיל
Is 21:11
i.e. what hour of the night of calamity is it?
cf.
v
12
(
opp.
בֹּקֶר
).
• לִילִית S 3917 TWOT 1112 GK 4327 n.f. Lilith (Milton Che nighthag ), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate Edom; prob. borrowed from Bab. , Is 34:14
(
NH
id.;
Assyrian
lilîtu
,
Dl
HWB 377; Syriac
ܠܶܠܻܝܬܳܐ
(
lelito
)
PS
1951; on the development of legneds of Lilith in later Judaism,
v. Bux
Lex. Talmud., s.v.
Che
ad loc. Grünbaum
ZMG xxxi. 1877, 250 f.
—Connexion with
לילה
perhaps only apparent, a popular etymology
)
.
לִין S 3885 TWOT 1096 GK 4328 v. לון .
Ew H. Ewals. Siegf C. Siegfried. Bab. Babylonian. Bux J. Buxtorf.