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
- Amos 2:8בֵּ֖ית · And in the houseThey lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
- Amos 3:13בְּבֵ֣ית · against the houseHear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.
- Amos 3:15בֵית־ · house; בֵּ֣ית · house; בָּתֵּ֣י · the houses; בָּתִּ֥ים · housesI will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 5:1בֵּ֥ית · O houseHear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
- Amos 5:3לְבֵ֥ית · in the houseThis is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
- Amos 5:4לְבֵ֣ית · to the houseFor this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
- Amos 5:6בֵּ֣ית · through the houseSeek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
- Amos 5:11בָּתֵּ֥י · in the stone housesTherefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 5:19הַבַּ֔יִת · his houseIt will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
- Amos 5:25בֵּ֥ית · O houseDid you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Amos 6:1בֵּ֥ית · the houseWoe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Amos 6:9בְּבַ֥יִת · houseAnd if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
- Amos 6:10הַבַּיִת֒ · the house; הַבַּ֛יִתAnd when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
- Amos 6:11הַבַּ֥יִת · house; וְהַבַּ֥יִת · houseFor the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
- Amos 6:14בֵּ֣ית · O houseFor behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
- Amos 7:9בֵּ֥ית · the houseThe high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
- Amos 7:10בֵּ֣ית · of the houseThen Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
- Amos 7:13וּבֵ֥ית · and the templeBut never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
- Amos 7:16בֵּ֥ית · the houseNow, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
- Amos 9:8בֵּ֥ית · the houseSurely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 9:9בֵּ֣ית · the house“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
- Obadiah 1:17בֵּ֣ית · and the houseBut on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.
- Obadiah 1:18בֵית־ · Then the house; וּבֵ֧ית · and the house; וּבֵ֤ית · but the house; לְבֵ֣ית · from the houseThen the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.
- Micah 1:5בֵּ֣ית · of the houseAll this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
- Micah 1:14בָּתֵּ֤י · the housesTherefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.
- Micah 2:2וּבָתִּ֖ים · houses; וּבֵית֔וֹ · of his homeThey covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Micah 2:7בֵּֽית־ · O houseShould it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
- Micah 2:9מִבֵּ֖ית · homesYou drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
- Micah 3:1בֵּ֣ית · of the houseThen I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
- Micah 3:9בֵּ֣ית · of the house; בֵּ֣ית · of the houseNow hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
- Micah 3:12הַבַּ֖יִת · and the templeTherefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
- Micah 4:1בֵּית־ · of the houseIn the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
- Micah 4:2בֵּית֙ · the houseAnd many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Micah 6:4וּמִבֵּ֥ית · from the houseFor I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
- Micah 6:10בֵּ֣ית · O houseCan I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- Micah 6:16בֵית־ · houseYou have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- Micah 7:6בֵיתֽוֹ׃ · of his own householdFor a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
- Nahum 1:14מִבֵּ֨ית · from the houseThe LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- Habakkuk 2:9לְבֵית֑וֹ · his houseWoe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Habakkuk 2:10לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ · for your houseYou have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.