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To lodge

בִּיתStrong’s H0956

but

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

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But is the Aramaic word usually translated “passed night”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.”
Daniel 6:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. (P'al) to pass the night, lodge
How it's translated
  • and he passed night 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    בִּית but · to lodge

    (P'al) to pass the night, lodge Aramaic of ba.yit (בַּ֫יִת ": home" H1004B)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “lodge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    LODGE, verb transitive

    1. To set, lay or deposit for keeping or preservation, for a longer or shorter time.
    2. To place; to plant; to infix.
    3. To fix; to settle in the heart, mind or memory.
    4. To furnish with a temporary habitation, or with an accommodation for a night.
    All definitions and other forms of “lodge”
    1. To harbor; to cover.
    2. To afford place to; to contain for keeping.
    3. To throw in or on; as, to lodge a ball or a bomb in a fort.
    4. To throw down; to lay flat.

    LODGE, verb intransitive

    1. To reside; to dwell; to rest in a place.
    2. To rest or dwell for a time, as for a night, a week, a month.
    3. To fall flat, as grain.

    LODGE, noun

    1. A small house in a park or forest, for a temporary place of rest at night; a temporary habitation; a hut.
    2. A small house or tenement appended to a larger; as a porter's lodge
    3. A den; a cave; any place where a wild beast dwells.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.