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).
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
Occurrences
2,050 total
- 1 Kings 8:44וְהַבַּ֖יִת · and the houseWhen Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 1 Kings 8:48וְהַבַּ֖יִת · and the house…and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 1 Kings 8:63בֵּ֣ית · the houseAnd Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 8:64בֵית־ · of the houseOn that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
- 1 Kings 9:1בֵּית־ · the house; בֵּ֣ית · palaceNow when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
- 1 Kings 9:3הַבַּ֤יִת · templeAnd the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 1 Kings 9:7הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · temple…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
- 1 Kings 9:8וְהַבַּ֤יִת · temple; וְלַבַּ֥יִת · templeAnd when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- 1 Kings 9:10הַבָּתִּ֑ים · houses; בֵּ֥ית · the house; בֵּ֥ית · palaceNow at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
- 1 Kings 9:15בֵּ֨ית · the house; בֵּיתוֹ֙ · his own palaceThis is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 9:24בֵּיתָ֖הּ · the palaceAs soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
- 1 Kings 9:25הַבָּֽיִת׃ · the templeThree times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
- 1 Kings 10:4וְהַבַּ֖יִת · the palaceWhen the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
- 1 Kings 10:5בֵּ֣ית · at the house…the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
- 1 Kings 10:12לְבֵית־ · for the house; וּלְבֵ֣ית · palaceThe king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
- 1 Kings 10:17בֵּ֖ית · in the HouseHe also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 10:21בֵּֽית־ · of the HouseAll King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 11:18בַ֗יִת · a houseHadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
- 1 Kings 11:20בֵּ֣ית · palace; בֵּ֣ית · thereAnd the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.
- 1 Kings 11:28בֵּ֥ית · of the houseNow Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
- 1 Kings 11:38בַֽיִת־ · dynastyIf you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
- 1 Kings 12:16בֵיתְךָ֖ · to your own houseWhen all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
- 1 Kings 12:19בְּבֵ֣ית · against the houseSo to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
- 1 Kings 12:20בֵית־ · the houseWhen all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
- 1 Kings 12:21בֵּ֨ית · house; בֵּ֣ית · the houseAnd when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 12:23בֵּ֥ית · the house“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people
- 1 Kings 12:24לְבֵית֔וֹ · home…that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 12:26לְבֵ֥ית · to the houseJeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
- 1 Kings 12:27בְּבֵית־ · in the houseIf these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
- 1 Kings 12:31בֵּ֣ית · shrinesJeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
- 1 Kings 13:2לְבֵית־ · to the houseAnd he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- 1 Kings 13:7הַבַּ֖יְתָה · homeThen the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
- 1 Kings 13:8בֵיתֶ֔ךָ · your possessionsBut the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
- 1 Kings 13:15הַבָּ֑יְתָה · homeSo the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
- 1 Kings 13:18בֵּיתֶ֔ךָ · your houseThen the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
- 1 Kings 13:19בְּבֵית֖וֹ · in his house…but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
- 1 Kings 13:32בָּתֵּ֣י · the shrines…for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
- 1 Kings 13:34בֵּ֣ית · of the houseAnd this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
- 1 Kings 14:4בֵּ֣ית · houseJeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
- 1 Kings 14:8מִבֵּ֣ית · from the houseI tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
- 1 Kings 14:10בֵּ֣ית · the house; בֵית־ · the houseBecause of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!