{"id":70530,"date":"2022-09-29T04:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/night-by-in-the\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T04:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:35:25","slug":"night-by-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/night-by-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Night (by, in the)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Night (by, in the)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> is used (I) literally, (a) of &#8220;the alternating natural period to that of the day,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 4:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 12:40<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ti 1:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rev 4:8<\/span>; (b) of &#8220;the period of the absence of light,&#8221; the time in which something takes place, e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 2:14<\/span> (<span class='bible'>Mat 27:64<\/span>, in some mss.); <span class='bible'>Luk 2:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 3:2<\/span> (<span class='bible'>Joh 7:50<\/span>, in some mss.); <span class='bible'>Act 5:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 9:25<\/span>; (c) of &#8220;point of time,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 14:27<\/span> (in some mss.), <span class='bible'>Mat 14:30<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 12:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 27:23<\/span>; (d) of &#8220;duration of time,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Luk 2:37<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 5:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 20:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 26:7<\/span> (note the difference in the phrase in <span class='bible'>Mar 4:27<\/span>); (II) metaphorically, (a) of &#8220;the period of man&#8217;s alienation from God,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Rom 13:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Th 5:5<\/span>, lit., &#8220;not of night,&#8221; where &#8220;of&#8221; means &#8216;belonging to;&#8217; cp. &#8220;of the Way,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Act 9:2<\/span>; &#8220;of shrinking back&#8221; and &#8220;of faith,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Heb 10:39<\/span>, marg.; (b) of &#8220;death,&#8221; as the time when work ceases, <span class='bible'>Joh 9:4<\/span>. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night (by, in the) is used (I) literally, (a) of &#8220;the alternating natural period to that of the day,&#8221; e.g., Mat 4:2; Mat 12:40; 2Ti 1:3; Rev 4:8; (b) of &#8220;the period of the absence of light,&#8221; the time in which something takes place, e.g., Mat 2:14 (Mat 27:64, in some mss.); Luk 2:8; Joh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/night-by-in-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Night (by, in the)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}