בַּ֫יִת

ba.yit · house: home

Hebrew · Strong's H1004 · Noun · Sounds like: bah'-yith · 2,049 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • house: home H1004B 898
  • house: household H1004M · a Meaning of 664
  • house: temple H1004Q · in Hebrew of 398
  • house: palace H1004P · in Hebrew of 39
  • house: inside H1004O · a Meaning of 25
  • house: container H1004N · a Meaning of 9
  • House (of the Forests of Lebanon) H1004K 5
  • place H1004A 4
  • Beth-(ashbea) H1004G 2
  • Beth-(togarmah) H1004I · a Part of 2
  • Beth (Haggan) H1004H 1
  • House (of the Forest) H1004J 1
  • Beth-(baal-meon) H1004L · a Part of 1

Strong's dictionary

probably from בָּנָה abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.); court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בֵּית fem. of בַּיִן, בֵּין prep. between
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בַּ֫יִת 2034 n.m. house
1. house
2. place
3. receptacle
4. of house as containing a family
5. household, family (592 t.)
6. house, including household affairs
7. lit. housewards, hence metaph. inwards
8. מִבַּיִת
a. adv. on the inside
b. prep. within

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 5:11 לְבֵית֔וֹ le.vei.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

  2. 1 Kings 5:14 בְּבֵית֑וֹ be.vei.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.

  3. 1 Kings 5:17 הַבָּ֖יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

  4. 1 Kings 5:18 הַבָּֽיִת׃ פ ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  5. 1 Kings 6:1 הַבַּ֖יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

  6. 1 Kings 6:2 וְהַבַּ֗יִת ve.ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

  7. 1 Kings 6:3 הַבַּ֔יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

  8. 1 Kings 6:3 הַבָּ֑יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

  9. 1 Kings 6:3 הַבָּֽיִת׃ ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

  10. 1 Kings 6:4 לַבָּ֔יִת la.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.

  11. 1 Kings 6:5 הַבַּ֤יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

  12. 1 Kings 6:5 הַבַּ֙יִת֙ ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

  13. 1 Kings 6:6 לַבַּ֤יִת la.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  14. 1 Kings 6:6 הַבָּֽיִת׃ ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  15. 1 Kings 6:7 וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ ve.ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

  16. 1 Kings 6:7 בַּבַּ֖יִת ba.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

  17. 1 Kings 6:8 הַבַּ֖יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.

  18. 1 Kings 6:9 הַבַּ֖יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

  19. 1 Kings 6:9 הַבַּ֙יִת֙ ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

  20. 1 Kings 6:10 הַבַּ֔יִת ha.Ba.yit · A person, place or thing

    And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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