בַּיִתbayith

בַּ֫יִת: house

Pronunciation: bah'-yith · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1004

Meanings

1. house

a. in the house of, into the house, home (Genesis 19:2; Genesis 19:3; Genesis 19:4)

b. spider's web (1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 6:10; Exodus 9:19)

c. houses of clay, keepers of the house (Job 4:19; Ecclesiastes 12:3; Psalms 119:54)

2. place (Nehemiah 2:3; Nehemiah 2:5; Amos 7:13)

3. receptacle (1 Kings 18:32; Isaiah 3:20; Exodus 25:27)

4. of house as containing a family, hence in phrase of slaves belonging to household (Genesis 14:14; Genesis 17:12; Genesis 17:13)

5. household, family

a. tents (Genesis 7:1; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 12:17)

d. rebellious house (Amos 7:16; Obadiah 1:18; Genesis 46:27)

e. father's house, father-houses, families (Numbers 1:2; Exodus 6:14; Exodus 12:3)

6. house, including household affairs, persons, property, etc. (Genesis 39:4; Genesis 39:5; Genesis 44:1)

7. בַּ֫יְתָה, בָּ֑יְתָה, literally housewards, hence metaphor inwards (Exodus 28:26; Exodus 39:19; 1 Kings 7:25)

8. מִבַּיִת

a. on the inside, locative (Genesis 6:14; Exodus 25:11; Exodus 37:2)

b. within (Exodus 26:33; Leviticus 16:2; Leviticus 16:12)

בֵּית הַגָּן: proper name [of a location]?: see גַּן, below גנן, and עֵין גַּנִּים (2 Kings 9:27)

כלוא: id. (Jeremiah 37:4; Jeremiah 52:31)

בַּ֫יִת: house

1. house, of men (Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 2:17)

2. house, of God, temple at Jerusalem (Daniel 5:3; Daniel 5:23; Ezra 4:24)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2,049 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 6:14 “Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.
  • Genesis 7:1 When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
  • Genesis 12:1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.
  • Genesis 12:15 When the palace officials saw her, they sang her praises to Pharaoh, their king, and Sarai was taken into his palace.
  • Genesis 12:17 But the Lord sent terrible plagues upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
  • Genesis 14:14 When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them at Dan.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).