בֵּית

betplace
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).

Glossary entries

Baal-meon Beth-Togarmah Beth-Ashbea Beth-Haggan Beth-Meon Beth-baal-meon

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

2,050 total
  1. Judges 1:23בֵית־ · [They]
    They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
  2. Judges 1:35בֵּית־ · But when the house
    And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
  3. Judges 4:17בֵּ֖ית · the house
    Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
  4. Judges 6:8מִבֵּ֥ית · out of the house
    He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  5. Judges 6:15בְּבֵ֥ית · house
    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
  6. Judges 6:27בֵּ֨ית · household
    So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
  7. Judges 8:27וּלְבֵית֖וֹ · and his household
    From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
  8. Judges 8:29בְּבֵיתֽוֹ׃ · home
    …and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.
  9. Judges 8:35בֵּ֥ית · the house
    They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.
  10. Judges 9:1בֵּית־
    Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
  11. Judges 9:4מִבֵּ֖יתּ · from the temple
    So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
  12. Judges 9:5בֵית־ · house
    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
  13. Judges 9:16בֵּית֔וֹ · and his family
    Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—
  14. Judges 9:18בֵּ֤ית · house
    …but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
  15. Judges 9:19בֵּית֖וֹ · and his house
    …if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.
  16. Judges 9:27בֵּ֣ית · into the house
    And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
  17. Judges 9:46בֵּ֖ית · of the temple
    On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
  18. Judges 10:9וּבְבֵ֣ית · and the house
    The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.
  19. Judges 11:2בְּבֵית־ · house
    And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
  20. Judges 11:7מִבֵּ֣ית · house
    Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
  21. Judges 11:31בֵיתִי֙ · of my house
    …then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
  22. Judges 11:34בֵּיתוֹ֒ · home
    And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
  23. Judges 12:1בֵּיתְךָ֕ · We will burn your house
    Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
  24. Judges 14:15בֵּ֥ית · household
    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
  25. Judges 14:19בֵּ֥ית · house
    Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
  26. Judges 16:21בְּבֵ֥ית · grain in the prison
    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
  27. Judges 16:25מִבֵּ֣ית · out of the prison
    And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
  28. Judges 16:26הַבַּ֖יִת · the temple
    Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
  29. Judges 16:27וְהַבַּ֗יִת · Now the temple
    Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
  30. Judges 16:29הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · the temple
    And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,
  31. Judges 16:30הַבַּ֙יִת֙ · and the temple
    Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
  32. Judges 16:31בֵּ֣ית · family
    Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
  33. Judges 17:4בְּבֵ֥ית · in the house
    So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
  34. Judges 17:5בֵּ֣ית · a shrine
    Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
  35. Judges 17:8בֵּ֥ית · house
    This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
  36. Judges 17:12בְּבֵ֥ית · house
    Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
  37. Judges 18:2בֵּ֣ית · the house
    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
  38. Judges 18:3בֵּ֣ית · house
    And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”
  39. Judges 18:13בֵּ֥ית · house
    And from there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah’s house.
  40. Judges 18:14בַּבָּתִּ֤ים · houses
    Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
  41. Judges 18:15 (2×)בֵּֽית־ · the home; בֵּ֣ית · the house
    So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
  42. Judges 18:18בֵּ֣ית · house
    When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
  43. Judges 18:19לְבֵית֙ · for the house
    “Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
  44. Judges 18:22 (3×)מִבֵּ֣ית · house; בַּבָּתִּים֙ · in the houses; בֵּ֣ית · house
    After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.
  45. Judges 18:25בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃ · and you and your family
    The Danites said to him, “Do not raise your voice against us, or angry men will attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”
  46. Judges 18:26בֵּיתֽוֹ׃ · home
    So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
  47. Judges 18:31בֵּית־ · the house
    So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.