Vocabulary Form
νύξ, νυκτός, ἡ
Definition

night

Erasmian
Modern
Root
νυκτ
Frequency
61
GK
3816
Cognates

Nocturnal, "pertaining to night," looks like it is related to the Greek nuvx but according to Klein it is actually from the Latin "nocturnus."

Mnemonics

After they nuke the city, everything will turn into night.

Mnemonic Singing

A thousand ages in thy sight
are like an evening gone,
short as the watch that ends the night
before the rising sun.

Song

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 2:14 So he got up, took the child and his mother by night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem), and left for Egypt,
Matthew 4:2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights (nyktas | νύκτας | acc pl fem), he was hungry.
Matthew 12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights (nyktas | νύκτας | acc pl fem), so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights (nyktas | νύκτας | acc pl fem).
Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) he came to them, walking on the sea.
Matthew 25:6 But at midnight (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this very night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem). For it stands written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
Matthew 26:34 Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, this very night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem), before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
Matthew 28:13 and told them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) and stole his body while we were sleeping.’
Mark 4:27 He goes to bed and gets up, night (nykta | νύκτα | acc sg fem) and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, how. although he does not know how. he
Mark 5:5 Unceasingly, night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) and day among the tombs and in the mountains, he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.
Mark 6:48 He saw them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) he came toward them, walking on the lake. He intended to pass by them,
Mark 14:30 And Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today — this very night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem), before the rooster crows twice — you will deny me three times.”
Luke 2:8 There were shepherds in that region who were living out in the fields and keeping night-watch over their flock.
Luke 2:37 and then she was a widow until she was eighty-four She did not leave the temple, worshipping night (nykta | νύκτα | acc sg fem) and day with fasting and prayer.
Luke 5:5 But Simon responded, saying, “Master, all night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) long we have toiled and have caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.”
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem) your soul will be demanded of you. And what you have prepared for yourself, whose will it be?’
Luke 17:34 I tell you, on that night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem) there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left behind.
Luke 18:7 Will not God certainly vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem), and have patience with them?
Luke 21:37 During the day he was in the temple teaching, but at night (nyktas | νύκτας | acc pl fem) he went out and stayed on the hill called “The Mount of Olives.”
John 3:2 This man came to Jesus by night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem) and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless God is with him.”
John 9:4 We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day; night (nyx | νύξ | nom sg fem) is coming when no one can work.
John 11:10 But if someone walks during the night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem), he will stumble, because the light is not in him.”
John 13:30 So after taking the morsel of bread, Judas went out at once; and it was night (nyx | νύξ | nom sg fem).
John 19:39 Nicodemus, who earlier had come to Jesus at night (nyktos | νυκτός | gen sg fem), also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
John 21:3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night (nykti | νυκτί | dat sg fem) they caught nothing.