Palace
בִּיתָןStrong’s H1055bitan (bi-tan)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bitan is the Hebrew word usually translated “palace” and “palace of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;”
Meaning
- House, palace
How it's translated
- the palace 2
- palace of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 7:7And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
- Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
Hebrew dictionary
בִּיתָן bitan · palace
house, palace
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “palace” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAL'ACE, noun
[Latin palatium.]
- A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical palace; a ducal palace
- A splendid place of residence; as the sun's bright palace
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.