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Night

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

The Hebrew day, from sunset to sunset, embraced the entire night

(Gen. 1:5⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5)). Death (John 9:4⁴I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. (John 9:4)); sin (1 Thess. 5.5); sorrow, sin, and death (Rev. 21:25; 22:5²⁵And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. (Revelation 21:25)
⁵And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 22:5)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Used symbolically for:

1. Death, a time “when no man can work” (John 9:4⁴I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. (John 9:4)).

2. The moral darkness of the world, in which men sleep and are drunken (1 Thess. 5:7⁷For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. (1 Thessalonians 5:7)).

3. The period of Christ’s rejection, which is far spent, and the “day” at hand (Rom. 13:12¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (Romans 13:12)). There will be no night of moral or spiritual darkness in the heavenly Jerusalem (Rev. 21:25²⁵And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. (Revelation 21:25); Rev. 22:5⁵And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 22:5)).