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בֵּיתStrong’s H1004

bet

Appears in 1,708 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bet is the Hebrew word usually translated “house of”, “house” and “house his”. It appears in 1,708 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.”
Daniel 1:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Nm
  2. (P'al) to pass the night, lodge
  3. Ashbea = "I shall make to swear"
  4. Nm
  5. Means: house, dwelling, household
  6. Means: house, dwelling, household
How it's translated
  • house of 690
  • the house 225
  • in house of 87
  • to house of 78
  • house his 65
  • a house 52
  • from house of 49
  • in the house 43

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

Where it's used most
  • 2 Chronicles 171
  • Ezekiel 159
  • 1 Kings 148
  • Jeremiah 119
  • 2 Kings 109
  • 2 Samuel 95

38 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 1,708 verses, by book
Song of Solomon 5
1:172:43:48:28:7
Lamentations 3
1:202:75:2
Daniel 1
1:2
Obadiah 2
1:171:18
Nahum 1
1:14
Habakkuk 3
2:92:103:13
Zephaniah 3
1:91:132:7
Malachi 1
3:10
Hebrew dictionary

בֵּית bet · place

nm place, origin, between

בִּית but · to lodge

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

אַשְׁבֵּעַ ashbea · (Beth)-ashbea

Ashbea = "I shall make to swear" the patriarch of a family of Judah Combined with ba.yit (בַּ֫יִת "Beth" H1004)

בַּ֫יִת bayit · Beth (Haggan)

nm This name is used for a house, habitation Combined with hag (גַּן "Haggan" H1588)

בַּ֫יִת bayit · House (of the Forest)

means: house, dwelling, household

בַּ֫יִת bayit · House (of the Forests of Lebanon)

means: house, dwelling, household

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

PLACE, noun

  1. A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested, as distinct from space in general.“Look from the place where thou art” Genesis 13:14“The place where thou standest is holy ground” Exodus 3:5“David's place was empty” 1 Samuel 20:25
  2. Any portion of space, as distinct from space in general.“Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place” Esther 4:14
  3. Local existence.“From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them” Revelation 20:11
  4. Separate room or apartment.
All definitions and other forms of “place”
  1. Seat; residence; mansion.“The Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation” John 11:48
  2. A portion or passage of writing or of a book.“The place of the Scripture which he read was this” Acts 8:32
  3. Point or degree in order of proceeding; as in the first place; in the second place; in the last place Hence,
  4. Rank; order of priority, dignity or importance.
  5. Office, employment; official station.
  6. Ground; room.
  7. Station in life; calling; occupation; condition.
  8. A city, a town; a village. Genesis 18:24
  9. In military affairs, a fortified town or post; a fortress; a fort; as a strong place; a place easily defended.
  10. A country; a kingdom.
  11. Space in general.
  12. Room; stead; with the sense of substitution.
  13. Room; kind reception.“My word hath no place in you” John 8:37
  14. The place of the moon, in astronomy, is the part of its orbit where it is found at any given time.
  15. To take the precedence or priority.
  16. To have actual existence.
  17. To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to.“Neither give place to the devil” Ephesians 4:27
  18. To give way; to yield to and suffer to pass away.

PLACE, verb transitive

To put or set in a particular part of space, or in a particular part of the earth, or in something on its surface; to locate; as, to place a house by the side of a stream; to place a book on a shelf; to place a body of cavalry on each flank of any army.

  1. To appoint, set, induct or establish in an office.“Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, etc” Exodus 18:21
  2. To put or set in any particular rank, state or condition.
  3. To set; to fix; as, to place one's affections on an object; to place confidence in a friend.
  4. To put; to invest; as, to place money in the funds or in a bank.
  5. To put out at interest; to lend; as, to place money in good hands or in good security.

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.