Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1055
בִּיתָן
bithanbee-thawn'
palace
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bîythân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1055is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1055
a palace (i.e. large house)
The King James renders it: palace.
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
bithan is rendered "palace". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 1:5At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
Esther 1:5בִּיתַ֖ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the palace2
- palace of1
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בִּיתַ֖ן1
- הַבִּיתָ֑ן1
- הַבִּיתָ֜ן1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Esther
three uses
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- בִּיתַ֖ןbitannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: palace of
In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.
- הַבִּיתָ֑ןhabitanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the palace
Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- הַבִּיתָ֜ןhabitanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the palace
The letters
Gematria 462· 1,112 mispar gadol
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 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.