Night

[Day]

NIGHT, one division of the twenty four hours composing a day. It includes the period of darkness, Gen 1:5, and was divided from the day by "lights in the firmament." Gen 1:14. Figuratively, it has been taken to designate death, John 9:4, and sin, 1 Thess 5:5. In the beautiful passage, "There shall be no night there," Rev 21:25; Rev 22:5, the meaning is that heaven is a place where no sorrow or sin or death finds entrance.

NIGHT, one division of the twenty four hours composing a day. It includes the period of darkness, Gen 1:5, and was divided from the day by "lights in the firmament." Gen 1:14. Figuratively, it has been taken to designate death, John 9:4, and sin, 1 Thess 5:5. In the beautiful passage, "There shall be no night there," Rev 21:25; Rev 22:5, the meaning is that heaven is a place where no sorrow or sin or death finds entrance.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5.

2. Hence:

3. Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. Pope.

4. Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

5. A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.

6. The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. Dryden.

7. A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. "Sad winter's night". Spenser.