Word

בַּיִת

bayith · H1005 · Aramaic · 44 occurrences

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Meanings

house

Construction surrounded by walls and covered with a roof; normally made of stones, wood, or clay; to be used as living quarters, for storage, as a prison, as a sanctuary, etc.; sometimes used to denote a smaller part of a large construction

Examples
Ezra 4:24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 5:2 then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.
Ezra 5:3 At that time Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues came to them and spoke to them as follows: “Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

38 occurrences in 10 groups

אֱלָהּGod, god 24
הוּhis 4
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

21 occurrences in 6 groups

דֵּןthis 8
יְרוּשָׁלֵםJerusalem 6
דֵּךְthe same 5
הָוָאto be 1
מֶלֶךְking 1
נְחַתcarry 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

בְּנָאbuild 2
יְצָאto go out 1
עֲבַדcut 1
שְׁוָהmake like 1
שׂוּםcommand 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 2 groups

בְּנָאbuild 8
חֲבַלdestroy 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 3 groups

לto/for 14
בin/on/with 8
מִןfrom 6

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 6 groups

חֲנֻכָּאdedication 2
עֲבִידָהaffairs 2
חַשְׁחוּתbe needful 1
מָאןvessel 1
פְּלַחminister 1
פׇּלְחָןservice 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

οἶκος oîkos · G3624 · house, temple, sanctuary: Greek οἶκος is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew בַּיִת across its full semantic range (physical dwelling, household, temple, dynasty), representing direct translation equivalence rather than merely overlapping usage.

Semantic domains 5 entries

Buildings001003002001: Ezra 5:8 has Tattenai report, “we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God which is being built with large stones, and beams are being laid in the walls.”
Space002002001017: Daniel 4:4 has Nebuchadnezzar recount, “I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and happy in my palace.”
Containers001003001001003: Ezra 5:17 has Tattenai's letter request, “let a search be conducted in the king's treasure house, which is there in Babylon, as to whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus.”
Groups001001003004: This Groups code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the far more frequent Hebrew form (בַּיִת (bayith, H1004)), whose extended sense of a household or family unit is well attested; the Aramaic occurrences of this word in Ezra and Daniel are exclusively literal references to a physical building (most often the Jerusalem temple), never to a household or dynasty.
Weak002001001069: This Weak code is likewise inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with בַּיִת (bayith, H1004), whose idiomatic “houses of clay” usage (of human frailty) is a distinctly Hebrew biblical phrase; none of this word's own Aramaic occurrences in Ezra and Daniel carry that or any comparable idiom of weakness.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בַּיִת bayith · H1004 · house, place · 2047×בַּיִתbayith · H1005

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0