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
- Jeremiah 3:18בֵּ֣ית · the houseIn those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
- Jeremiah 3:20בֵּ֥ית · O houseBut as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:7וּבֵ֥ית · at the houses“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
- Jeremiah 5:11בֵּ֧ית · the house; וּבֵ֥ית · and the houseFor the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:15בֵּ֥ית · O houseBehold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
- Jeremiah 5:20בְּבֵ֣ית · in the houseDeclare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:
- Jeremiah 5:27בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם · their housesLike cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
- Jeremiah 6:12בָֽתֵּיהֶם֙ · Their housesTheir houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:2בֵּ֣ית · of the house“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:10בַּבַּ֤יִת · house…and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
- Jeremiah 7:11הַבַּ֧יִת · houseHas this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:14לַבַּ֣יִת׀ · to the house…therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
- Jeremiah 7:30בַּבַּ֛יִת · in the houseFor the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Jeremiah 9:26בֵּ֥ית · houseEgypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
- Jeremiah 10:1בֵּ֥ית · O houseHear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 11:10בֵֽית־ · The house; וּבֵ֣ית · and the houseThey have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
- Jeremiah 11:15בְּבֵיתִ֗י · in My houseWhat right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
- Jeremiah 11:17בֵּֽית־ · the house; וּבֵ֣ית · and the houseThe LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
- Jeremiah 12:6וּבֵית־ · householdEven your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
- Jeremiah 12:7בֵּיתִ֔י · My houseI have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.
- Jeremiah 12:14בֵּ֥ית · the houseThis is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
- Jeremiah 13:11בֵּ֨ית · house; בֵּ֤ית · houseFor just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
- Jeremiah 16:5בֵּ֣ית · a houseIndeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 16:8וּבֵית־ · a houseYou must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
- Jeremiah 17:22מִבָּֽתֵּיכֶם֙ · of your housesYou must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
- Jeremiah 17:26בֵּ֥ית · to the houseAnd people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 18:2בֵּ֣ית · house“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”
- Jeremiah 18:3בֵּ֣ית · houseSo I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
- Jeremiah 18:6בֵּ֥ית · O house; בֵּ֥ית · O house“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 18:22מִבָּ֣תֵּיהֶ֔ם · from their housesLet a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
- Jeremiah 19:13בָּתֵּ֣י · The houses; וּבָתֵּי֙ · and the houses; הַבָּתִּ֗ים · the housesThe houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
- Jeremiah 19:14בֵּית־ · of the houseThen Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
- Jeremiah 20:1בְּבֵ֣ית · in the houseWhen Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
- Jeremiah 20:2בְּבֵ֥ית · by the house…he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:6בֵיתֶ֔ךָ · in your houseAnd you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
- Jeremiah 21:11וּלְבֵית֙ · Moreover, [tell] the houseMoreover, tell the house of the king of Judah to hear the word of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 21:12בֵּ֣ית · O houseO house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
- Jeremiah 22:1בֵּֽית־ · to the palaceThis is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
- Jeremiah 22:4הַבַּ֣יִת · palaceFor if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
- Jeremiah 22:5הַבַּ֥יִת · houseBut if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
- Jeremiah 22:6בֵּית֙ · the houseFor this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
- Jeremiah 22:13בֵיתוֹ֙ · his palace“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Jeremiah 22:14בֵּ֣ית · palace…who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.