בֵּית (bayit) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning house. It appears
2056 times
in 38 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H1004).
Also rendered
bayit
household
temple
place
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
Strong's H1004בַּיִת: 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.