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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H1005

בַּיִת

bayithbah-yith

house

44 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1005is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 27
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1005

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

The King James renders it: house.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

bayith is rendered "house". It stands 44 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Thirty-five of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:24Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.

The first use

Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 4:24בֵּית־

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirty-five of the word's forty-four uses are in Ezra.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • house of21
  • house the5
  • and house his2
  • for house of2
  • house his2
  • in house of2
  • to house his2
  • to house of2
  • and house of1
  • and house the1
  • and houses your1
  • in house1

and 2 more, 44 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בַּיִתbayithplaceUses2,046

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 44, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

27 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בֵּית־10
  • בֵּ֥ית3
  • בֵ֥ית2
  • בֵּ֣ית2
  • בֵּ֖ית2
  • בֵית־2
  • בַּיְתָ֤א2
  • לְבֵ֥ית2
  • בְּבֵ֨ית1
  • בְּבֵ֣ית1
  • בְּבֵ֥ית1
  • בְּבֵיתִ֔י1

and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)21ANcbsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)8AR/Ncbsc
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)5ANcbsd/Ta
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2AR/Ncbsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncbsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1AC/Ncbsc/Sp3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/Ncbsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/Ncbsd/Ta
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1AC/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1ANcbsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1ANcbsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1AR/Ncbsc/Sp1bs

Ezra

thirty-five uses
  • Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

    Ezra 4:24

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

    Ezra 5:2

    • בֵּ֥יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

    Ezra 5:3

    • בַּיְתָ֤אbayta'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: house the
  • Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.

    Ezra 5:8

    • לְבֵית֙leveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to house of
  • So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

    Ezra 5:9

    • בַּיְתָ֤אbayta'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: house the
  • And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.

    Ezra 5:11

    • בַּיְתָא֙bayta'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: house the
  • But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.

    Ezra 5:12

    • וּבַיְתָ֤הuvaytah'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and house the
  • In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

    Ezra 5:13

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor

    Ezra 5:14

    • בֵית־veit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • and instructed, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’

    Ezra 5:15

    • וּבֵ֥יתuveitconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and house of
  • So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been under construction, but it has not yet been completed.”

    Ezra 5:16

    • בֵ֥יתveitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

    Ezra 5:17

    • בְּבֵ֨יתbeveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in house of
    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.

    Ezra 6:1

    • בְּבֵ֣יתbeveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in house
  • In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

    Ezra 6:3

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
    • בַּיְתָ֣אbayta'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: house the
  • with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

    Ezra 6:4

    • בֵּ֥יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.

    Ezra 6:5

    • בֵית־veit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
    • בְּבֵ֥יתbeveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in house of
  • Leave this work on the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.

    Ezra 6:7

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

    Ezra 6:8

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

    Ezra 6:11

    • בַּיְתֵ֔הּbaytehnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: house his
    • וּבַיְתֵ֛הּuvaytehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and house his
  • May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.

    Ezra 6:12

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

    Ezra 6:15

    • בַּיְתָ֣הbaytah'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: house the
  • Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

    Ezra 6:16

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.

    Ezra 6:17

    • בֵּית־beit-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.

    Ezra 7:16

    • לְבֵ֥יתleveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for house of
  • With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.

    Ezra 7:17

    • בֵּ֥יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • You must deliver to the God of Jerusalem all the articles given to you for the service of the house of your God.

    Ezra 7:19

    • בֵּ֣יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.

    Ezra 7:20

    • בֵּ֣יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
    • בֵּ֖יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?

    Ezra 7:23

    • לְבֵ֖יתleveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for house of
  • And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

    Ezra 7:24

    • בֵּ֖יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of

Daniel

nine uses
  • The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.

    Daniel 2:5

    • וּבָתֵּיכ֖וֹןuvateikhonconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and houses your
  • Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

    Daniel 2:17

    • לְבַיְתֵ֣הּlevaytehpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to house his
  • Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

    Daniel 3:29

    • וּבַיְתֵ֖הּuvaytehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and house his
  • I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.

    Daniel 4:4

    • בְּבֵיתִ֔יbeveitipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: in house my
  • the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”

    Daniel 4:30

    • לְבֵ֣יתleveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to a house of
  • Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

    Daniel 5:3

    • בֵ֥יתveitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: house of
  • Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.

    Daniel 5:10

    • לְבֵ֥יתleveitpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to house of
  • Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

    Daniel 5:23

    • בַיְתֵ֜הּvaytehnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: house his
  • Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

    Daniel 6:10

    • לְבַיְתֵ֔הּlevaytehpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to house his

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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