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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:

Ezra 8:30: "and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God."
Ezra 8:33: "and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by of Meremoth"
Ezra 8:36: "the people, and the house of God."
Ezra 9:9: "us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations"
Ezra 10:1: "weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled him out of Israel"
Ezra 10:6: "Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into"
Ezra 10:9: "the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter,"
Ezra 10:16: "with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated,"
Nehemiah 1:6: "of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned."
Nehemiah 2:3: "be sad, the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lieth waste, and the gates"
Nehemiah 2:8: "the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that"
Nehemiah 2:8: "appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king"
Nehemiah 3:10: "the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next him repaired Hattush"
Nehemiah 3:16: "the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty."
Nehemiah 3:20: "of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest."
Nehemiah 3:21: "another piece, of the house of Eliashib even to the end"
Nehemiah 3:21: "of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib."
Nehemiah 3:23: "Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah"
Nehemiah 3:23: "the son of Ananiah by his house."
Nehemiah 3:24: "of Henadad another piece, from the house from the house of Azariah the turning"
Nehemiah 3:25: "of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court"
Nehemiah 3:28: "repaired the priests, every one over against his house."
Nehemiah 3:29: "the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired the son"
Nehemiah 3:31: "the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, the gate"
Nehemiah 4:14: "your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses."
Nehemiah 4:16: "and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah."
Nehemiah 5:3: "have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy because of the dearth."
Nehemiah 5:11: "their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, the wine,"
Nehemiah 5:13: "every from his house, from his house, and from his labor, that"
Nehemiah 6:10: "Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel,"
Nehemiah 6:10: "and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple,"
Nehemiah 7:3: "in his watch, and every one to be over against his house."
Nehemiah 7:4: "and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built."
Nehemiah 7:39: "The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy"
Nehemiah 7:61: "but they could not their father's house, nor their seed, whether they"
Nehemiah 8:16: "the roof of his house, and in their courts, of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate,"
Nehemiah 9:25: "and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all wells"
Nehemiah 10:32: "with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;"
Nehemiah 10:33: "for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God."
Nehemiah 10:34: "for the wood offering, to bring it into the house after the houses of our fathers,"
Nehemiah 10:34: "offering, to bring it into the house after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed"
Nehemiah 10:35: "trees, by year, unto the house of the LORD:"
Nehemiah 10:36: "of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house"
Nehemiah 10:36: "of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:"
Nehemiah 10:37: "to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites,"
Nehemiah 10:38: "the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure"
Nehemiah 10:38: "to the chambers, into the treasure house."
Nehemiah 10:39: "and we will not forsake the house of our God."
Nehemiah 11:11: "of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God."
Nehemiah 11:12: "And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two:"









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