ΝΥΚΤΩΝ, νυκτων
NYKTŌN, nyktōn
Sounds Like: NYK-ton
Translations: of nights
From the root: ΝΥΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: The word refers to the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise. As a genitive plural, 'ΝΥΚΤΩΝ' indicates possession or relationship, meaning 'of nights' or 'belonging to nights'. It is commonly used to specify a duration or a time when something occurs, such as 'forty days and forty nights'.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3571 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Proverbs — 31:15
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 5:99
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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
- ΝΥΚΤΑ — night, a night, by night, during the 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
- 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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