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בַּיִת

bayith

bah'-yith

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

Rendered in the KJV as

court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out).

  • 2,046
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 184
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 184

  • בֵּ֣ית39
  • לְבֵ֣ית33
  • בֵּ֥ית23
  • בֵּית־19
  • מִבֵּ֣ית17
  • הַבַּ֔יִת11
  • בְּבֵ֥ית10
  • בֵּית֔וֹ10
  • הַבַּ֖יִת10
  • בְּבֵ֣ית9
  • בֵּית֑וֹ9
  • לְבֵ֥ית8

and 172 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 103

  • [the] house of90
  • the house41
  • to [the] house of35
  • house his21
  • in [the] house of21
  • household his20
  • house your19
  • [the] household of17
  • from [the] house of13
  • in the house13
  • from a house of11
  • the house towards11

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 47

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)115
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)104
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular42
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular42
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular24
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular18
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular14
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular14
  • noun · masculine singular13
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)11
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular9
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)8
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 115
  • HR/Ncmsc · 104
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 42
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 42
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 24
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 18
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 14
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 14
  • HNcmsa · 13
  • HTd/Ncmsa/Sd · 11
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 9
  • HC/Ncmsc · 8

The first 500 of 2,046, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis109 occurrences
Exodus59 occurrences
Leviticus53 occurrences
Numbers58 occurrences
Deuteronomy45 occurrences
Joshua26 occurrences
Judges68 occurrences
Ruth7 occurrences
1 Samuel25 occurrences
Psalms50 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled בַּיִת

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).