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
- Judges 19:2בֵּ֣ית · houseBut she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
- Judges 19:3בֵּ֣ית · house…her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
- Judges 19:15הַבַּ֖יְתָה · into his homeThey stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.
- Judges 19:18בֵּ֤ית · to the house; הַבָּֽיְתָה׃ · into his homeThe Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,
- Judges 19:21לְבֵית֔וֹ · to his houseSo he brought him to his house and fed his donkeys. And they washed their feet and ate and drank.
- Judges 19:22הַבַּ֔יִת · the house; הַבַּ֤יִת · the house; בֵּיתְךָ֖ · your houseWhile they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- Judges 19:23הַבַּ֔יִת · of the house; בֵּיתִ֔י · in my houseThe owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
- Judges 19:26בֵּית־ · to the houseEarly that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.
- Judges 19:27הַבַּ֔יִת · of the house; הַבַּ֔יִת · of the houseIn the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
- Judges 19:29בֵּית֗וֹ · his houseWhen he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
- Judges 20:5הַבַּ֖יִת · the houseAnd during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
- Judges 20:8לְבֵיתֽוֹ׃ · to his houseThen all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
- Ruth 1:8לְבֵ֣ית · homeThen Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
- Ruth 1:9בֵּ֣ית · in the homeMay the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
- Ruth 2:7הַבַּ֖יִת · in the shelterShe has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”
- Ruth 4:11בֵּיתֶ֗ךָ · your home; בֵּ֣ית · the house“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
- Ruth 4:12בֵֽיתְךָ֙ · And may your house; כְּבֵ֣ית · like the houseAnd may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
- 1 Samuel 1:7בְּבֵ֣ית · to the houseAnd this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.
- 1 Samuel 1:19בֵּיתָ֖ם · homeThe next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
- 1 Samuel 1:21בֵּית֑וֹ · his houseThen Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
- 1 Samuel 1:24בֵית־ · to the houseOnce she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.
- 1 Samuel 2:11בֵּית֑וֹ · homeThen Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
- 1 Samuel 2:27בֵּ֣ית · house; לְבֵ֥ית · houseThen a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
- 1 Samuel 2:28לְבֵ֣ית · to the houseAnd out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the food offerings of the Israelites.
- 1 Samuel 2:30בֵּֽיתְךָ֙ · that your house; וּבֵ֣ית · and the houseTherefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
- 1 Samuel 2:31בֵּ֣ית · house; בְּבֵיתֶֽךָ׃ · so that no one in itBehold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age.
- 1 Samuel 2:32בְּבֵיתְךָ֖ · in your houseYou will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.
- 1 Samuel 2:33בֵּיתְךָ֖And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
- 1 Samuel 2:35בַּ֣יִת · houseThen I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.
- 1 Samuel 2:36בְּבֵ֣יתְךָ֔ · in your houseAnd everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- 1 Samuel 3:12בֵּית֑וֹ · his houseOn that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.
- 1 Samuel 3:13בֵּית֖וֹ · his houseI told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
- 1 Samuel 3:14לְבֵ֣ית · to the house; בֵּית־ · houseTherefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”
- 1 Samuel 3:15בֵּית־ · of the houseSamuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,
- 1 Samuel 5:2בֵּ֣ית · the temple…carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
- 1 Samuel 5:5בֵּית־ · the templeThat is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
- 1 Samuel 6:7הַבָּֽיְתָה׃ · and pen them upNow, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
- 1 Samuel 6:10בַבָּֽיִת׃So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
- 1 Samuel 7:1בֵּ֥ית · houseThen the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD.