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בֵּית

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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 Kings 5:18בֵּ֣ית · in the temple; בֵּ֣ית
    Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”
  2. 2 Kings 5:24בַּבָּ֑יִת · in the house
    When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed.
  3. 2 Kings 6:30מִבָּֽיִת׃ · under his clothes
    When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
  4. 2 Kings 6:32בְּבֵית֔וֹ · in his house
    Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
  5. 2 Kings 7:9בֵּ֥ית · household
    Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
  6. 2 Kings 7:11בֵּ֥ית · household
    The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported to the king’s household.
  7. 2 Kings 8:1וּבֵיתֵ֔ךְ · and your household
    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”
  8. 2 Kings 8:2וּבֵיתָ֔הּ · and her household
    So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
  9. 2 Kings 8:3בֵּיתָ֖הּ · her house
    At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.
  10. 2 Kings 8:5בֵּיתָ֖הּ · her house
    And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
  11. 2 Kings 8:18בֵּ֣ית · the house
    And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
  12. 2 Kings 8:27בֵּ֣ית · of the house; כְּבֵ֣ית · like the house; בֵּית־ · of the house
    And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
  13. 2 Kings 9:6הַבַּ֔יְתָה · into the house
    So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.
  14. 2 Kings 9:7בֵּ֥ית · the house
    And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.
  15. 2 Kings 9:8בֵּ֣ית · house
    The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
  16. 2 Kings 9:9בֵּ֣ית · the house; כְּבֵ֖ית · like the houses; וּכְבֵ֖ית · [and]
    I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.
  17. 2 Kings 9:27בֵּ֣ית
    When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
  18. 2 Kings 10:3בֵּ֥ית · house
    …select the best and most worthy son of your master, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
  19. 2 Kings 10:5הַבַּ֣יִת · So the palace
    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
  20. 2 Kings 10:10בֵּ֣ית · the house
    Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
  21. 2 Kings 10:11לְבֵית־ · of the house
    So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.
  22. 2 Kings 10:21בֵּ֣ית · the temple; בֵית־ · and it
    Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.
  23. 2 Kings 10:23בֵּ֣ית · the temple
    Next, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”
  24. 2 Kings 10:25בֵּית־ · of the temple
    When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
  25. 2 Kings 10:26בֵּית־ · of the temple
    They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
  26. 2 Kings 10:27בֵּ֣ית · the temple
    They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.
  27. 2 Kings 10:30לְבֵ֣ית · to the house
    Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  28. 2 Kings 11:3בֵּ֣ית · in the house
    And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
  29. 2 Kings 11:4בֵּ֣ית · into the house; בְּבֵ֣ית · [There]
    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
  30. 2 Kings 11:5בֵּ֥ית · palace
    …and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,
  31. 2 Kings 11:6הַבַּ֖יִת · the temple
    …a third shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns guarding the temple—
  32. 2 Kings 11:7בֵּית־ · the house
    …the two divisions that would go off duty on the Sabbath are to guard the house of the LORD for the king.
  33. 2 Kings 11:10בְּבֵ֥ית · the house
    Then the priest gave to the commanders of hundreds the spears and shields of King David from the house of the LORD.
  34. 2 Kings 11:11הַבַּ֤יִת; הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · of the temple; וְלַבָּ֑יִת · and the temple
    And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
  35. 2 Kings 11:13בֵּ֥ית · in the house
    When Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.
  36. 2 Kings 11:15מִבֵּ֣ית; בֵּ֥ית · in the house
    And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
  37. 2 Kings 11:16בֵּ֣ית
    So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
  38. 2 Kings 11:18בֵּית־ · to the temple; בֵּ֥ית · the house
    So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
  39. 2 Kings 11:19מִבֵּ֣ית · from the house
    He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,