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
- 2 Kings 20:5בֵּ֥ית · to the house“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 20:8בֵּ֥ית · to the houseNow Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
- 2 Kings 20:13בֵּ֣ית · house; בֵּ֣ית · as well as his armory; בְּבֵית֖וֹ · in his palaceAnd Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
- 2 Kings 20:15בְּבֵיתֶ֑ךָ · in your palace; בְּבֵיתִי֙ · in my palace“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
- 2 Kings 20:17בְּבֵיתֶ֗ךָ · in your palaceThe time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- 2 Kings 21:4בְּבֵ֣ית · in the houseManasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
- 2 Kings 21:5בֵּית־ · of the houseIn both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
- 2 Kings 21:7בַּבַּ֗יִת · in the temple; בַּבַּ֨יִת · templeManasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- 2 Kings 21:13בֵּ֣ית · used against the houseI will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
- 2 Kings 21:18בֵּית֖וֹ · in his palaceAnd Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 21:23בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃ · in his palaceThen the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
- 2 Kings 22:3בֵּ֥ית · to the houseNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
- 2 Kings 22:4בֵּ֣ית · into the house“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
- 2 Kings 22:5בְּבֵית · on the house; בְּבֵ֣ית · to the house; הַבָּֽיִת׃And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
- 2 Kings 22:6הַבָּֽיִת׃ · the temple…to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
- 2 Kings 22:8בְּבֵ֣ית · in the houseThen Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
- 2 Kings 22:9בַבַּ֔יִת · in the temple; בֵּ֥ית · of the houseAnd Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
- 2 Kings 23:2בֵּית־ · to the house; בְּבֵ֥ית · in the houseAnd he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 23:6מִבֵּ֨ית · from the houseHe brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
- 2 Kings 23:7בָּתֵּ֣י · the quarters; בְּבֵ֣ית · in the house; בָּתִּ֖ים · tapestriesHe also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
- 2 Kings 23:11בֵית־ · to the houseAnd he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
- 2 Kings 23:12בֵּית־ · of the houseHe pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Kings 23:19בָּתֵּ֨י · the shrinesJust as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
- 2 Kings 23:24בֵּ֥ית · in the houseFurthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 23:27הַבַּ֔יִת · and the templeFor the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
- 2 Kings 24:13בֵּ֣ית · from the house; בֵּ֣ית · palaceAs the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 25:9בֵּית־ · the house; בֵּ֣ית · palace; בָּתֵּ֧י · the houses; בֵּ֥ית · buildingHe burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- 2 Kings 25:13בֵּית־ · in the house; בְּבֵית־Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:16לְבֵ֣ית · for the houseAs for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
- 2 Kings 25:27מִבֵּ֥ית · fromOn the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- 1 Chronicles 2:55בֵית־ · of the house…and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21בֵּית־ · at Beth-ashbea; לְבֵ֥יתThe sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,
- 1 Chronicles 4:38וּבֵית֙These men listed by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly,
- 1 Chronicles 5:13לְבֵ֣יתTheir kinsmen by families were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven in all.