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. Job 24:16 בָּ֫תִּ֥ים ba.Tim · A person, place or thing

    In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

  2. Job 27:18 בֵּית֑וֹ bei.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

  3. Job 30:23 וּבֵ֖ית u.Veit · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

  4. Job 38:20 בֵּיתֽוֹ׃ bei.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

  5. Job 39:6 בֵית֑וֹ vei.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

  6. Job 42:11 בְּבֵיתוֹ֒ be.vei.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.

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