בֵּית
bayit
house
Strong's H1004NounHebrewTWOT 241Places

בֵּית (bayit) is a Hebrew noun meaning house. It appears 2056 times in 38 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1004).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 241)

Range of meaning (TWOT 241)house; place; receptacle; household, family; household affairs; housewards, inwards; on the inside, within; court, daughter, door, hangings, home, inside, palace, temple, web
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

בַּ֫יִת noun, masculine: house

Strong's H1004 בַּיִת: a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV:court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 6:14Exodus 1:1Leviticus 10:6

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