ΝΥΚΤΑ, νυκτα
NYKTA, nykta
Sounds Like: NOOK-tah
Translations: night, a night, by night, during the night
From the root: ΝΥΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise. As an accusative form, it often indicates the duration of an action or the time when something occurs, meaning 'during the night' or 'by night'.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3571 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 19:12, 19:19
- Esther — 4:16, 6:1
- Judith — 6:21, 7:5, 8:33, 12:7
- Tobit — 6:11, 6:13, 6:14, 6:16, 7:10, 7:11, 7:12, 8:9, 10:7
- 1 Maccabees — 5:50, 12:26
- Psalms — 6:7, 77:14, 91:3, 104:39, 120:6
- Job — 17:12, 34:25, 36:20
- Wisdom — 10:17, 17:5, 17:13
- Isaiah — 21:8, 21:12, 60:19, 62:6
- Jonah — 4:10
- Zechariah — 1:8
- Mark — 4:27
- Luke — 2:37
- Acts of the Apostles — 20:31, 26:7
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 34:308
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 1:28, 10:177
- Book 2 — 14:313, 16:346
- Book 3 — 2:50, 14:307
- Book 5 — 8:305, 9:329
- Book 7 — 1:18, 4:92, 14:367
- Book 10 — 1:21, 8:136, 10:198
- Book 15 — 6:168
- Book 16 — 8:260
- Book 18 — 6:233
- Book 20 — 4:91
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Martyrdom of Polycarp — 5:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 1:5, 8:22, 14:15, 19:5, 19:33, 19:34, 20:3, 30:15, 30:16, 31:24, 32:13, 32:21, 32:22
- Exodus — 10:13, 13:21, 14:20, 14:21
- Leviticus — 6:9, 8:35
- Numbers — 9:16, 11:32, 14:1, 14:14, 22:8, 22:19
- Joshua — 2:3, 4:3, 10:9
- Judges — 16:2, 19:25
- Ruth — 3:13
- 1 Samuel — 14:36, 15:11, 15:16, 19:11, 19:24, 25:16, 26:7, 28:20, 28:25, 31:12
- 2 Samuel — 2:29, 2:32, 4:7, 17:1, 17:16, 19:7
- 1 Kings — 3:5, 3:19
- 2 Chronicles — 7:12
- Nehemiah — 1:6, 9:12, 9:19
- Esther — 4:16, 6:1
- Judith — 6:21, 7:5, 8:33, 11:17, 12:7
- Tobit — 6:11, 6:13, 6:14, 6:16, 6:16, 7:10, 7:11, 7:11, 8:9, 8:9, 10:7
- 1 Maccabees — 5:50, 12:26
- Psalms — 6:7, 77:14, 91:3, 104:39, 120:6
- Proverbs — 29:36
- Job — 17:12, 34:25, 36:20
- Wisdom — 10:17, 17:5, 17:14
- Isaiah — 21:8, 21:12, 60:19, 62:6
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:15
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:9
- Hosea — 7:6
- Amos — 5:8
- Jonah — 4:10
- Zechariah — 1:8
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΥΞ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΝΥΚΤ — night, a night, (of) night
- ΝΥΚΤΑΝ — night, a night
- ΝΥΚΤΑΣ — nights, the nights
- ΝΥΚΤΕΙ — at night, by night, in the night, to night, for night
- ΝΥΚΤΕΡΙΝΗ — nightly, nocturnal, of the night, a nightly thing, a nocturnal thing
- ΝΥΚΤΕΡΙΝΟΝ — nocturnal, nightly, of the night, a nocturnal thing
- ΝΥΚΤΕΡΙΝΟΣ — nocturnal, nightly, of night
- ΝΥΚΤΕΣ — nights
- ΝΥΚΤΙ — to night, at night, by night, in the night
- ΝΥΚΤΙΜΟΣ — nightly, by night, at night
- ΝΥΚΤΟ? — of night, by night, at night
- ΝΥΚΤΟΣ — of night, of a night, night's
- ΝΥΚΤΩΝ — of nights
- ΝΥΚΤΩΡ — by night, at night, in the night
- ΝΥΞ — night, a night
- ΝΥΞʼ — night, a night
- ΝΥΞΙ — at night, by night, in the night, nights
- ΝΥΞΙΝ — in nights, by night, at night
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