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. 1 Kings 1:53לְבֵיתֶֽךָ׃פ · to your home
    So King Solomon summoned Adonijah down from the altar, and he came and bowed down before King Solomon, who said to him, “Go to your home.”
  2. 1 Kings 2:24בַּ֖יִת · a dynasty
    And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
  3. 1 Kings 2:27בֵּ֥ית · the house
    So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
  4. 1 Kings 2:31בֵּ֥ית · the house
    And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.
  5. 1 Kings 2:33וּלְבֵית֨וֹ · his house
    Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”
  6. 1 Kings 2:34בְּבֵית֖וֹ · at his own home
    So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.
  7. 1 Kings 2:36בַ֙יִת֙ · a house
    Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.
  8. 1 Kings 3:1בֵּיתוֹ֙ · his palace; בֵּ֣ית · the house
    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
  9. 1 Kings 3:2בַ֙יִת֙ · a house
    The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
  10. 1 Kings 3:17בְּבַ֣יִת · house; בַּבָּֽיִת׃ · in the house
    One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
  11. 1 Kings 3:18בַּבַּ֔יִת · in the house; בַּבָּֽיִת׃
    On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
  12. 1 Kings 4:6הַבָּ֑יִת · the palace
    Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
  13. 1 Kings 4:7בֵּית֑וֹ · and his household
    Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
  14. 1 Kings 5:3בַּ֗יִת · a house
    “As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
  15. 1 Kings 5:5בַּ֔יִת · a house; הַבַּ֖יִת · the house
    So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
  16. 1 Kings 5:9בֵּיתִֽי׃ · my household
    My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
  17. 1 Kings 5:11לְבֵית֔וֹ · for his household
    …and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
  18. 1 Kings 5:14בְּבֵית֑וֹ · at home
    He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
  19. 1 Kings 5:17הַבָּ֖יִת · of the temple
    And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
  20. 1 Kings 5:18הַבָּֽיִת׃פ · of the temple
    So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
  21. 1 Kings 6:1הַבַּ֖יִת · the house
    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
  22. 1 Kings 6:2וְהַבַּ֗יִת · The house
    The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
  23. 1 Kings 6:3הַבַּ֔יִת · of the temple; הַבָּ֑יִת · of the temple; הַבָּֽיִת׃ · of the temple
    The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
  24. 1 Kings 6:4לַבָּ֔יִת · in the temple
    He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
  25. 1 Kings 6:5הַבַּ֤יִת · of the temple; הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · the temple
    Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
  26. 1 Kings 6:6לַבַּ֤יִת · of the temple; הַבָּֽיִת׃ · into [its]
    The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
  27. 1 Kings 6:7וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ · The temple; בַּבַּ֖יִת · in the temple
    The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
  28. 1 Kings 6:8הַבַּ֖יִת · of the temple
    The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
  29. 1 Kings 6:9הַבַּ֖יִת · the temple; הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · it
    So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
  30. 1 Kings 6:10הַבַּ֔יִת · the temple; הַבַּ֖יִת · to the temple
    He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
  31. 1 Kings 6:12הַבַּ֨יִת · temple
    “As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
  32. 1 Kings 6:14הַבַּ֖יִת · the temple
    So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
  33. 1 Kings 6:15הַבַּ֤יִת · the interior; מִבַּ֙יְתָה֙; הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · of the temple; מִבָּ֑יִת; הַבַּ֖יִת
    He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
  34. 1 Kings 6:16הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · of the temple; מִבַּ֣יִת · within the temple
    He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.