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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:

Nehemiah 11:16: "of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God."
Nehemiah 11:22: "of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God."
Nehemiah 12:29: "Also from the house Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for"
Nehemiah 12:37: "of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water"
Nehemiah 12:40: "So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers"
Nehemiah 13:4: "Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied"
Nehemiah 13:7: "in preparing in the courts of the house of God."
Nehemiah 13:8: "therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out"
Nehemiah 13:9: "and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with and the frankincense."
Nehemiah 13:11: "the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together,"
Nehemiah 13:14: "and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house and for the offices"
Esther 1:8: "to the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure."
Esther 1:9: "a feast for the women in the royal house which Ahasuerus."
Esther 1:22: "after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language"
Esther 2:3: "unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody"
Esther 2:8: "was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper"
Esther 2:9: "to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: her, out of the king's house: and he preferred"
Esther 2:9: "her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women."
Esther 2:11: "every day before the court of the women's house, to know"
Esther 2:13: "she desired was given with her out of the house her out of the house of the women unto"
Esther 2:13: "her out of the house of the women unto the king's house."
Esther 2:14: "returned into the second house to the custody of Shaashgaz,"
Esther 2:16: "king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth which"
Esther 4:13: "not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews."
Esther 4:14: "to the Jews but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed:"
Esther 5:1: "in the inner court house, over against the king's house: and the king"
Esther 5:1: "house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal"
Esther 5:1: "his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house."
Esther 5:1: "house, over against the gate of the house."
Esther 5:10: "Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for"
Esther 6:4: "into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang"
Esther 6:12: "But Haman hasted to his house and having his head covered."
Esther 7:8: "returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine;"
Esther 7:8: "the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word"
Esther 7:9: "for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang"
Esther 8:1: "Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' unto Esther"
Esther 8:2: "set Mordecai over the house of Haman."
Esther 8:7: "Behold, I have given the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows,"
Esther 9:4: "Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces:"
Job 1:4: "And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent"
Job 1:10: "made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that"
Job 1:13: "wine in their eldest brother's house:"
Job 1:18: "wine in their eldest brother's house:"
Job 1:19: "the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men,"
Job 3:15: "princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:"
Job 4:19: "How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed"
Job 7:10: "He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more."
Job 8:14: "shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web."
Job 8:15: "He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure."
Job 8:17: "about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."









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