בֵּית

hebrewOld TestamentAdjective2,050 occurrences38 books1,709 verses
This word comes from the names of Baal-meon, Beth-ashbea, Beth-haggan and Beth-togarmah.

Definition

probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Traditional renderings: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בֵּית:

Glossary entries

Baal-meon Beth-Togarmah Beth-Ashbea Beth-Haggan Beth-Meon Beth-baal-meon

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,050 total
  1. 2 Samuel 11:10בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃ · home
    And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
  2. 2 Samuel 11:11בֵּיתִ֛י · my house
    Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
  3. 2 Samuel 11:13בֵּית֖וֹ · home
    Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
  4. 2 Samuel 11:27בֵּיתוֹ֙ · his house
    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  5. 2 Samuel 12:8בֵּ֣ית · house to you; בֵּ֥ית · the house
    I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.
  6. 2 Samuel 12:10מִבֵּיתְךָ֖ · from your house
    Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
  7. 2 Samuel 12:11מִבֵּיתֶ֔ךָ · from your own house
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
  8. 2 Samuel 12:15בֵּית֑וֹ · home
    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
  9. 2 Samuel 12:17בֵיתוֹ֙ · of his household
    The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
  10. 2 Samuel 12:20בֵית־ · the house; בֵּית֔וֹ · his own house
    Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
  11. 2 Samuel 13:7הַבַּ֣יְתָה · at the palace; בֵּ֚ית · to the house
    Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
  12. 2 Samuel 13:8בֵּ֛ית · to the house
    So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
  13. 2 Samuel 13:20בֵּ֖ית · woman in the house
    Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
  14. 2 Samuel 14:8לְבֵיתֵ֑ךְ · home
    “Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
  15. 2 Samuel 14:9בֵּ֣ית · house
    But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
  16. 2 Samuel 14:24בֵּית֔וֹ · his house; בֵּית֔וֹ · his own house
    But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the face of the king.
  17. 2 Samuel 14:31הַבָּ֑יְתָה · house
    Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
  18. 2 Samuel 15:16בֵּית֖וֹ · household; הַבָּֽיִת׃ · the palace
    Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
  19. 2 Samuel 15:17בֵּ֥ית · at
    So the king set out with all the people following him. He stopped at the last house,
  20. 2 Samuel 15:35מִבֵּ֣ית · palace
    Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be there with you? Report to them everything you hear from the king’s palace.
  21. 2 Samuel 16:2לְבֵית־ · household
    “Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
  22. 2 Samuel 16:3בֵּ֣ית · the house
    “Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
  23. 2 Samuel 16:5בֵּית־ · of the house
    As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.
  24. 2 Samuel 16:8בֵית־ · of the house
    The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
  25. 2 Samuel 16:21הַבָּ֑יִת · the palace
    Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
  26. 2 Samuel 17:18בֵּֽית־ · the house
    But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
  27. 2 Samuel 17:20הַבַּ֗יְתָה · at the house
    When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
  28. 2 Samuel 17:23בֵּיתוֹ֙ · his house; בֵּית֖וֹ
    When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
  29. 2 Samuel 19:5הַבָּ֑יִת · the house
    Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
  30. 2 Samuel 19:11בֵּית֑וֹ · his palace; בֵּיתֽוֹ׃ · his quarters
    Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
  31. 2 Samuel 19:17בֵּ֣ית · of the house
    …along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
  32. 2 Samuel 19:18בֵּ֣ית · household
    …and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
  33. 2 Samuel 19:20בֵּ֣ית · the house
    For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
  34. 2 Samuel 19:28בֵּ֣ית · the house
    For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
  35. 2 Samuel 19:30בֵּיתֽוֹ׃ס · his own house
    And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
  36. 2 Samuel 19:41בֵּיתוֹ֙ · and his household
    Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
  37. 2 Samuel 20:3בֵּיתוֹ֮ · his palace; הַבַּ֜יִת · the palace; בֵּית־ · in a house
    When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
  38. 2 Samuel 21:1בֵּ֣ית · his family
    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
  39. 2 Samuel 21:4בֵּית֔וֹ · his house
    The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied.
  40. 2 Samuel 23:5בֵּיתִ֖י · my house
    Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
  41. 2 Samuel 24:17וּבְבֵ֥ית · house
    When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”