Strong G3571νύξ
night
- Transliteration
- nux
- Pronunciation
- noox
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
A primary word; night (literally or figuratively): - (mid-) night.
Detailed definition
νύξ genitive νυκτός, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for לַיִל;]
night: Mat.12:40, Mrk.6:48, Jhn.13:30, al.; genitive temp. (of the time within which something happens; M, Pr., 73; B1., § 36, 13), νυκτός, by night, Mat.2:14, Jhn.3:2, 1Th.5:7, al.; ν. κ. ἡμέρας, Mrk.5:5, 1Th.2:9, al.; ἡμέρας κ. ν., Luk.18:7, Rev.4:8, al.; μέσης ν., Mat.25:6; dative, νυκτί, in ans. to the question, "when?" (rare in cl.; Hdt., Soph.), ταύτῃ τ. ν., Luk.12:20, al.; ἐκείνῃ Act.12:6; ἐπιούσῃ, Act.23:11; accusative durat. (Bl., § 34, 8; Kühner3, III, 314b), ν. κ. ἠμέραν, Luk.2:37 Act.20:31; τ. νύκτας, Luk.21:37; διὰ νυκτός (= cl. νυκτός; Bl., § 42, 1; 46, 7), Act.5:19 16:9 17:10 23:31; δι᾽ ὅλης ν., Luk.5:5; κατὰ μέσον τῆς ν. (Bl., § 47, 6), Act.27:27. Metaphorical: Jhn.9:4, Rom.13:12, 1Th.5:5
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[in LXX chiefly for לַיִל;]
night: Mat.12:40, Mrk.6:48, Jhn.13:30, al.; genitive temp. (of the time within which something happens; M, Pr., 73; B1., § 36, 13), νυκτός, by night, Mat.2:14, Jhn.3:2, 1Th.5:7, al.; ν. κ. ἡμέρας, Mrk.5:5, 1Th.2:9, al.; ἡμέρας κ. ν., Luk.18:7, Rev.4:8, al.; μέσης ν., Mat.25:6; dative, νυκτί, in ans. to the question, "when?" (rare in cl.; Hdt., Soph.), ταύτῃ τ. ν., Luk.12:20, al.; ἐκείνῃ Act.12:6; ἐπιούσῃ, Act.23:11; accusative durat. (Bl., § 34, 8; Kühner3, III, 314b), ν. κ. ἠμέραν, Luk.2:37 Act.20:31; τ. νύκτας, Luk.21:37; διὰ νυκτός (= cl. νυκτός; Bl., § 42, 1; 46, 7), Act.5:19 16:9 17:10 23:31; δι᾽ ὅλης ν., Luk.5:5; κατὰ μέσον τῆς ν. (Bl., § 47, 6), Act.27:27. Metaphorical: Jhn.9:4, Rom.13:12, 1Th.5:5
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In the Bible
Strong G3571 appears in 62 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- night61
- midnight2
First verses
- Matthew 2:14When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
- Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 14:25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
- Matthew 25:6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
- Matthew 26:31Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
- Matthew 26:34Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
- Matthew 28:13Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
- Mark 4:27And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
- Mark 5:5And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
- Mark 6:48And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
- Mark 14:27And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
- Mark 14:30And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
- Luke 2:8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- Luke 2:37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
- Luke 5:5And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
- Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- Luke 17:34I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
- Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
νύξ, νυκτός, ἡ,
night: either generally, mght-season (opposed to day), or a night, ν. ἀμβροσίη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.363; ν. ἄμβροτος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.330)]; but ν. ὀλοή[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 19, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.567, compare below 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3)], III; νυκτός by night, as adverb, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.278, etc.; οὔτε ν. οὔτ᾽ ἐξ ἡμέρας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 780)]; νυκτὸς ἔτι while it was still night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.10; also τῆς νυκτός 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 78.3, 148; ν. τῆσδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 21)]; ἄκρας ν. at dead of night, [Refs ([prev. work] 285 (but ἄκρῃ νυκτί at)]night-fall, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 775, ἀκρόθι νυκτός)] on the verge of dawn, [Refs ([prev. author] 308))]; ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν, see at {ἀωρί}: in plural, τῶν νυκτῶν at nights, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 668: rarely, νυκτί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.12; ν. τῇδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 644)]; νύκτα the night long, νύκτα φυλάσσειν to watch the night through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.312, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.466: _plural_, νύκτας ἰαύειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.325, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.154, etc.; δύω νύκτας, τρεῖς ν., [prev. work] 388, 17.515)]: in Attic dialect, ὅλην τὴν ν. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 177, 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 20.4; τὴν νύχθ᾽ ὅλην 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 3; τὰς νύκτας 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.14; ὅλας γε καὶ πάσας τὰς ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.54; νύκτας τε καὶ ἦμαρ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.490; νύκτας τε καὶ ἡμέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 151a; οὔτε νύκτ᾽ οὔθ᾽ ἡμέραν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 187; τὴν νύχθ᾽ ὅλην τήν θ᾽ ἡμέραν 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 53.1)]; νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον (κατάπεμψον), i. e. without delay, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 314.7, “PSI” 5.514.3 (both 3rd c.BC))]; μέσαι νύκτες midnight, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 52, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621b; περὶ μ. νύκτας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.12; ἐν μέσῳ νυκτῶν [prev. author] “Cyr.” 5.3.52; πρωΐτερον μέσων νυκτῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.101; ἔξω μέσων ν. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.26.)]
2 frequently with Preps., ἀνὰ νύκτα by night, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.80)]; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ν. all night through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.32.4; διὰ νύκτα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.66, etc.)]; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν., towards night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 11.4, “HG” 4.6.7)]; ἐν νυττί (νυκτί), opposed to πεδ᾽ ἀμέραν, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 2.14, “SIG” 527.40 (Dreros, 3rd c.BC))]; κατὰ νύκτα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 561 (Lyric poetry))]; ὑπὸ νύκτα to wards nightfall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.67, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 2.19)]; μετὰ νύκτας by night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.6)]; μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν καὶ διὰ νυκτός all through the night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 117e)]; ἐκ νυκτός after nightfall, [LXX+6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.2, LXX.Isa.26.9, etc.; ἐκ πολλῆς ἔτι νυκτός 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.67; ἐκ νυκτῶν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 460, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 287, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 13, 17 (both _anapaest meter_); ἐκ νυκτὸς εἰς νύκτα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 368b)]; πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν far into the night, [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 217d, “Prt.” 310c)]; ἐπὶ νυκτί by night, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.529; ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ αἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ νυκτί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 102; ἐν νυκτί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 653, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.9, etc.; ὀψίᾳ ἐν ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).36; ἐν ν. τῇ νῦν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 16; νύκτεσσιν ἔν θ᾽ ἁμέραις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.130.)]
3 in plural, watches of the night, [Refs ([prev. work] 256)]; three such, παροίχωκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ᾽ ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.252)]; τρίχα νυκτὸς ἔην, for τρίτον μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν, it was the third watch, i. e. next before morning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.312.)]
II metaphorically of darkness, νυκτὶ καλύψαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.23, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.351, etc.)]
II.2 metaphorically of death, ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ ν. ἐκάλυψε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.310, +others; ν. Ἅιδης τε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 660.)]
II.3 in Comparisons, of anything dark and direful, νυκτὶ ἐοικώς like night, of Apollo in his wrath, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.47, compare 12.463, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.606)]; τάδε νυκτὶ ἐΐσκει what is here he like ns to night, [Refs (20.362)]; ὀλεθρία ν., of a great calamity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1684 (Lyric poetry).)]
III Νύξ as proper name, the goddess of Night, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.259, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 17, “Th.” 123, 211; N. ὀλοή [prev. work] 224.)]
IV the night- or evening-quarter of heaven, the West, πρὸς νυκτός [Refs ([prev. work] 275. (Cf. Latin)]nox, Lithuanian naktis, Gothic nahts, etc.)
night: either generally, mght-season (opposed to day), or a night, ν. ἀμβροσίη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.363; ν. ἄμβροτος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.330)]; but ν. ὀλοή[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 19, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.567, compare below 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3)], III; νυκτός by night, as adverb, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.278, etc.; οὔτε ν. οὔτ᾽ ἐξ ἡμέρας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 780)]; νυκτὸς ἔτι while it was still night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.10; also τῆς νυκτός 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 78.3, 148; ν. τῆσδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 21)]; ἄκρας ν. at dead of night, [Refs ([prev. work] 285 (but ἄκρῃ νυκτί at)]night-fall, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 775, ἀκρόθι νυκτός)] on the verge of dawn, [Refs ([prev. author] 308))]; ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν, see at {ἀωρί}: in plural, τῶν νυκτῶν at nights, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 668: rarely, νυκτί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.12; ν. τῇδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 644)]; νύκτα the night long, νύκτα φυλάσσειν to watch the night through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.312, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.466: _plural_, νύκτας ἰαύειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.325, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.154, etc.; δύω νύκτας, τρεῖς ν., [prev. work] 388, 17.515)]: in Attic dialect, ὅλην τὴν ν. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 177, 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 20.4; τὴν νύχθ᾽ ὅλην 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 3; τὰς νύκτας 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.14; ὅλας γε καὶ πάσας τὰς ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.54; νύκτας τε καὶ ἦμαρ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.490; νύκτας τε καὶ ἡμέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 151a; οὔτε νύκτ᾽ οὔθ᾽ ἡμέραν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 187; τὴν νύχθ᾽ ὅλην τήν θ᾽ ἡμέραν 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 53.1)]; νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον (κατάπεμψον), i. e. without delay, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 314.7, “PSI” 5.514.3 (both 3rd c.BC))]; μέσαι νύκτες midnight, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 52, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621b; περὶ μ. νύκτας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.12; ἐν μέσῳ νυκτῶν [prev. author] “Cyr.” 5.3.52; πρωΐτερον μέσων νυκτῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.101; ἔξω μέσων ν. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.26.)]
2 frequently with Preps., ἀνὰ νύκτα by night, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.80)]; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ν. all night through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.32.4; διὰ νύκτα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.66, etc.)]; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν., towards night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 11.4, “HG” 4.6.7)]; ἐν νυττί (νυκτί), opposed to πεδ᾽ ἀμέραν, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 2.14, “SIG” 527.40 (Dreros, 3rd c.BC))]; κατὰ νύκτα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 561 (Lyric poetry))]; ὑπὸ νύκτα to wards nightfall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.67, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 2.19)]; μετὰ νύκτας by night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.6)]; μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν καὶ διὰ νυκτός all through the night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 117e)]; ἐκ νυκτός after nightfall, [LXX+6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.2, LXX.Isa.26.9, etc.; ἐκ πολλῆς ἔτι νυκτός 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.67; ἐκ νυκτῶν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 460, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 287, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 13, 17 (both _anapaest meter_); ἐκ νυκτὸς εἰς νύκτα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 368b)]; πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν far into the night, [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 217d, “Prt.” 310c)]; ἐπὶ νυκτί by night, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.529; ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ αἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ νυκτί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 102; ἐν νυκτί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 653, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.9, etc.; ὀψίᾳ ἐν ν. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).36; ἐν ν. τῇ νῦν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 16; νύκτεσσιν ἔν θ᾽ ἁμέραις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.130.)]
3 in plural, watches of the night, [Refs ([prev. work] 256)]; three such, παροίχωκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ᾽ ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.252)]; τρίχα νυκτὸς ἔην, for τρίτον μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν, it was the third watch, i. e. next before morning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.312.)]
II metaphorically of darkness, νυκτὶ καλύψαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.23, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.351, etc.)]
II.2 metaphorically of death, ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ ν. ἐκάλυψε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.310, +others; ν. Ἅιδης τε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 660.)]
II.3 in Comparisons, of anything dark and direful, νυκτὶ ἐοικώς like night, of Apollo in his wrath, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.47, compare 12.463, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.606)]; τάδε νυκτὶ ἐΐσκει what is here he like ns to night, [Refs (20.362)]; ὀλεθρία ν., of a great calamity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1684 (Lyric poetry).)]
III Νύξ as proper name, the goddess of Night, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.259, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 17, “Th.” 123, 211; N. ὀλοή [prev. work] 224.)]
IV the night- or evening-quarter of heaven, the West, πρὸς νυκτός [Refs ([prev. work] 275. (Cf. Latin)]nox, Lithuanian naktis, Gothic nahts, etc.)