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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:

Deuteronomy 20:5: "is there that hath built house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return"
Deuteronomy 20:5: "dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another"
Deuteronomy 20:6: "yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another"
Deuteronomy 20:7: "taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another"
Deuteronomy 20:8: "let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's"
Deuteronomy 21:12: "Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare"
Deuteronomy 21:13: "of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail"
Deuteronomy 22:2: "him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until"
Deuteronomy 22:8: "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring"
Deuteronomy 22:8: "that thou bring not upon thine house, if any man fall from"
Deuteronomy 22:21: "to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city her with stones"
Deuteronomy 22:21: "in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among"
Deuteronomy 23:18: "of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God vow:"
Deuteronomy 24:1: "and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. her out of his house."
Deuteronomy 24:2: "And when she is departed out of his house, out of his house, she may go and be another man's"
Deuteronomy 24:3: "and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter"
Deuteronomy 24:5: "business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up"
Deuteronomy 24:10: "thou shalt not go into his house his pledge."
Deuteronomy 25:9: "will not build up his brother's house."
Deuteronomy 25:10: "And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed."
Deuteronomy 25:14: "Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small."
Deuteronomy 26:11: "the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the stranger that"
Deuteronomy 26:13: "I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger,"
Deuteronomy 28:30: "man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell a vineyard,"
Joshua 2:1: "And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged"
Joshua 2:3: "thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out"
Joshua 2:12: "will also show unto my father's house, and give me a true"
Joshua 2:15: "through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she"
Joshua 2:18: "and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto"
Joshua 2:18: "and all thy father's household, home unto"
Joshua 2:19: "that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood"
Joshua 2:19: "and we and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood"
Joshua 6:17: "and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers"
Joshua 6:22: "the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence"
Joshua 6:24: "and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD."
Joshua 6:25: "Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth"
Joshua 7:14: "the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take"
Joshua 7:14: "shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come"
Joshua 7:18: "And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son"
Joshua 9:12: "our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses out of our houses on the day we came forth to go"
Joshua 9:23: "of wood of water for the house of my God."
Joshua 17:17: "And Joshua spoke unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying,"
Joshua 18:5: "in their coast on the south, and the house shall abide in"
Joshua 20:6: "unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence"
Joshua 21:45: "which the LORD had spoken the house of Israel; all came to pass."
Joshua 22:14: "him ten princes, of each chief house a prince"
Joshua 22:14: "a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; was a head of the house of their fathers"
Joshua 24:15: "ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Joshua 24:17: "us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house from the house and which"
Judges 1:22: " And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with"









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