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 Chronicles 6:20הַבַּ֤יִת · temple
    May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:22בַּבַּ֥יִת · temple
    When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:24בַּבַּ֥יִת · temple
    When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:29הַבַּ֥יִת · temple
    …then may whatever prayer or plea Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:32הַבַּ֥יִת · temple
    And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
  6. 2 Chronicles 6:33הַבַּ֥יִת · house
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
  7. 2 Chronicles 6:34וְהַבַּ֖יִת · and the house
    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
  8. 2 Chronicles 6:38וְלַבַּ֖יִת · 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 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,
  9. 2 Chronicles 7:1הַבָּֽיִת׃ · the temple
    When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
  10. 2 Chronicles 7:2בֵּ֣ית · the house; בֵּ֥ית · [it]
    The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.
  11. 2 Chronicles 7:3הַבָּ֑יִת · the temple
    When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
  12. 2 Chronicles 7:5בֵּ֣ית · the house
    And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
  13. 2 Chronicles 7:7בֵית־ · of the house
    Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.
  14. 2 Chronicles 7:11בֵּ֥ית · the house; בֵּ֣ית · palace; בְּבֵית־ · for the house; וּבְבֵית֖וֹ · and for his own palace
    When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
  15. 2 Chronicles 7:12לְבֵ֥ית · as a house
    …the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
  16. 2 Chronicles 7:16הַבַּ֣יִת · temple
    For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
  17. 2 Chronicles 7:20הַבַּ֤יִת · temple
    …then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
  18. 2 Chronicles 7:21וְהַבַּ֤יִת · temple; וְלַבַּ֥יִת · temple
    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
  19. 2 Chronicles 8:1בֵּ֥ית · the house; בֵּיתֽוֹ׃ · his own palace
    Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,
  20. 2 Chronicles 8:11לַבַּ֖יִת · to the palace; בְּבֵית֙ · in the house
    Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
  21. 2 Chronicles 8:16בֵּית־ · for the house; בֵּ֥ית · So the house
    Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.
  22. 2 Chronicles 9:3וְהַבַּ֖יִת · the palace
    When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
  23. 2 Chronicles 9:4בֵּ֣ית · at the house
    …the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, the attire of his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
  24. 2 Chronicles 9:11לְבֵית־ · for the house; וּלְבֵ֣ית · palace
    The king made the algum 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 anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.)
  25. 2 Chronicles 9:16בְּבֵ֖ית · in the House
    He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  26. 2 Chronicles 9:20בֵּֽית־ · of the House
    All 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.
  27. 2 Chronicles 10:16בֵיתְךָ֖ · now
    When 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 all the Israelites went home,
  28. 2 Chronicles 10:19בְּבֵ֣ית · against the house
    So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.
  29. 2 Chronicles 11:1בֵּ֨ית · the house
    When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
  30. 2 Chronicles 11:4לְבֵית֔וֹ · home
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
  31. 2 Chronicles 12:9בֵּית־ · of the house; בֵּ֣ית · palace
    So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
  32. 2 Chronicles 12:10בֵּ֥ית · palace
    Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
  33. 2 Chronicles 12:11בֵּ֣ית · the house
    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
  34. 2 Chronicles 15:18בֵּ֣ית · into the house
    And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
  35. 2 Chronicles 16:2בֵּ֥ית · of the house; וּבֵ֣ית · palace
    So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
  36. 2 Chronicles 16:10בֵּ֣ית · in prison
    Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
  37. 2 Chronicles 17:14לְבֵ֣ית · according to the houses
    These are their numbers according to the houses of their fathers: From Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him 300,000 mighty men of valor;
  38. 2 Chronicles 18:16לְבֵית֖וֹ · home
    So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
  39. 2 Chronicles 18:26בֵּ֣ית · in prison
    …and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”