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 Chronicles 24:21בֵּ֥ית · of the houseBut they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 24:27בֵּ֣ית · of the houseThe accounts of the sons of Joash and the many pronouncements about him, and of the restoration of the house of God, are indeed written in the Treatise of the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 25:5לְבֵית־Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
- 2 Chronicles 25:19בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָ · at homeYou have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
- 2 Chronicles 25:24בְּבֵית־ · in the house; בֵּ֣ית · palaceHe took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of God with Obed-edom and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19בְּבֵ֣ית · in the houseUzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
- 2 Chronicles 26:21בֵּ֤ית; מִבֵּ֣ית · from the house; בֵּ֣ית · palaceSo King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.
- 2 Chronicles 27:3בֵּית־ · of the houseJotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.
- 2 Chronicles 28:7הַבָּ֑יִת · of the palaceZichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the governor of the palace, and Elkanah the second to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 28:21בֵּ֣ית · from the house; בֵּ֥ית · palaceAlthough Ahaz had taken a portion from the house of the LORD, from the royal palace, and from the princes and had presented it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.
- 2 Chronicles 28:24בֵית־ · of the house; בֵית־; בֵּית־ · of the houseThen Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 29:3בֵּית־ · of the houseIn the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:5בֵּ֤ית · the house“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
- 2 Chronicles 29:15בֵּ֥ית · the houseWhen they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:16בֵית־ · the house; בֵּ֣יתSo the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Chronicles 29:17בֵּית־ · the houseThey began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 29:18בֵּ֣ית · houseThen they went in to King Hezekiah and reported, “We have cleansed the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table of the showbread with all its utensils.
- 2 Chronicles 29:20בֵּ֥ית · up to the houseEarly the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25בֵּ֣ית · in the houseHezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31לְבֵ֣ית · to the houseThen Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
- 2 Chronicles 29:35בֵּית־ · of the houseFurthermore, the burnt offerings were abundant, along with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of the LORD was established.
- 2 Chronicles 30:1לְבֵית־ · to the houseThen Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15בֵּ֥ית · to the houseAnd on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 31:10לְבֵ֣ית · of the household; בֵית־ · into the house…and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
- 2 Chronicles 31:11בְּבֵ֥ית · in the houseThen Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
- 2 Chronicles 31:13בֵּית־ · of the houseJehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 31:16לְבֵית־ · the houseIn addition, they distributed portions to the males registered by genealogy who were three years of age or older—to all who would enter the house of the LORD for their daily duties for service in the responsibilities of their divisions—
- 2 Chronicles 31:17לְבֵ֣ית · their families…and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their responsibilities and divisions.
- 2 Chronicles 31:21בֵּית־ · of the houseHe acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 32:21בֵּ֣ית · the temple…and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
- 2 Chronicles 33:4בְּבֵ֣ית · in the houseManasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:5בֵּית־ · of the houseIn both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 33:7בְּבֵ֣ית · in the house; בַּבַּ֨יִת · templeManasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God 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 Chronicles 33:15מִבֵּ֣ית · from the house; בֵּית־ · on the templeHe removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
- 2 Chronicles 33:20בֵּית֑וֹ · at his palaceAnd Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 33:24בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃ · in his palaceThen the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6בָּתֵּיהֶםJosiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:8וְהַבָּ֑יִת · and the temple; בֵּ֖ית · the houseNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9בֵית־ · into the houseSo they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who guarded the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.