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Strong's #1004: bayith (pronounced bah'-yith)

probably from 1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.):--court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bayith

1) house

1a) house, dwelling habitation

1b) shelter or abode of animals

1c) human bodies (figuratively)

1d) of Sheol

1e) of abode of light and darkness

1f) of land of Ephraim

2) place

3) receptacle

4) home, house as containing a family

5) household, family

5a) those belonging to the same household

5b) family of descendants, descendants as organized body

6) household affairs

7) inwards (metaphorically)

8) (TWOT) temple

9) on the inside

10) within

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: probably from H1129 abbreviated



Usage:

This word is used 2053 times:

2 Samuel 23:5: "Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made"
2 Samuel 24:17: "I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house."
1 Kings 1:53: "and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house."
1 Kings 2:24: "and who hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death"
1 Kings 2:27: "of the LORD, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh."
1 Kings 2:31: "shed, from me, and from the house of my father."
1 Kings 2:33: "forever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace forever"
1 Kings 2:34: "and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness."
1 Kings 2:36: "for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell and go not forth"
1 Kings 3:1: "he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem"
1 Kings 3:1: "of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about."
1 Kings 3:2: "in high places, because there was no house built unto the name until"
1 Kings 3:17: "woman dwell house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house."
1 Kings 3:17: "house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house."
1 Kings 3:18: "there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house."
1 Kings 3:18: "save we two in the house."
1 Kings 4:6: "And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute."
1 Kings 4:7: "Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year"
1 Kings 5:3: "could not build a house unto the name of the LORD his God for"
1 Kings 5:5: "And, behold, I purpose to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God, as"
1 Kings 5:5: "in thy room, he shall build a house unto my name."
1 Kings 5:9: "my desire, in giving food for my household."
1 Kings 5:11: "measures of wheat for food to his household, measures of pure oil:"
1 Kings 5:14: "in Lebanon, months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy."
1 Kings 5:17: "and hewed stones, of the house."
1 Kings 5:18: "timber and stones the house."
1 Kings 6:1: "which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD."
1 Kings 6:2: " And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore"
1 Kings 6:3: "And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length"
1 Kings 6:3: "cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits"
1 Kings 6:3: "and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house."
1 Kings 6:4: " And for the house he made windows of narrow lights."
1 Kings 6:5: "And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls"
1 Kings 6:5: "round about, against the walls of the house both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made"
1 Kings 6:6: "broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not"
1 Kings 6:6: "that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house."
1 Kings 6:7: " And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer"
1 Kings 6:7: "tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building."
1 Kings 6:8: "was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs the middle"
1 Kings 6:9: "So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams"
1 Kings 6:9: "and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards"
1 Kings 6:10: "chambers against all the house, five cubits high:"
1 Kings 6:10: "high: the house with timber of cedar."
1 Kings 6:12: "Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes,"
1 Kings 6:14: "So Solomon built the house, and finished"
1 Kings 6:15: "And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,"
1 Kings 6:15: "the walls of the house within within with boards of cedar, both the floor"
1 Kings 6:15: "within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, of the ceiling:"
1 Kings 6:15: "both the floor of the house, of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside them on the inside with wood,"
1 Kings 6:15: "them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks"









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