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:
Proverbs 27:27: "enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens."
Proverbs 30:26: "are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;"
Proverbs 31:15: "night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens."
Proverbs 31:21: "She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household"
Proverbs 31:21: "of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet."
Proverbs 31:27: "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."
Ecclesiastes 2:4: "I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:"
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great"
Ecclesiastes 4:14: "For out of prison out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also"
Ecclesiastes 5:1: "when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear,"
Ecclesiastes 7:2: "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to"
Ecclesiastes 7:2: "of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: that"
Ecclesiastes 7:4: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
Ecclesiastes 7:4: "of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
Ecclesiastes 10:18: "decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through."
Ecclesiastes 12:3: "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves,"
Ecclesiastes 12:5: "man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:"
Song of Solomon 1:17: "The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir."
Song of Solomon 2:4: "He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love."
Song of Solomon 3:4: "let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house,"
Song of Solomon 8:2: "thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine"
Song of Solomon 8:7: "would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned."
Isaiah 2:2: "days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top"
Isaiah 2:3: "the mountain of the LORD, the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways,"
Isaiah 2:5: " O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD."
Isaiah 2:6: "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east,"
Isaiah 3:6: "a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler,"
Isaiah 3:7: "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither nor clothing:"
Isaiah 3:14: "the spoil of the poor is in your houses."
Isaiah 3:20: "The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,"
Isaiah 5:7: "the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant"
Isaiah 5:8: "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till"
Isaiah 5:8: "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till"
Isaiah 5:9: "of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great"
Isaiah 6:4: "moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke."
Isaiah 6:11: "Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without"
Isaiah 7:2: "And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim."
Isaiah 7:13: "And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary"
Isaiah 7:17: "thy people, and upon thy father's house, days have not come,"
Isaiah 8:14: "and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, and for a snare to the inhabitants"
Isaiah 8:17: "upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house from the house of Jacob, and I will look"
Isaiah 10:20: "that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no again"
Isaiah 10:32: "he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, of Jerusalem."
Isaiah 13:16: "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
Isaiah 13:21: "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls"
Isaiah 14:1: "with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob."
Isaiah 14:2: "them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in"
Isaiah 14:17: "the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?"
Isaiah 14:18: "of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house."
Isaiah 22:8: "day to the armor of the house of the forest."
