--- title: בַּיִת — house · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary description: בַּיִת (lemma:בַּיִת), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 44 times: house. BDB 1906: n.m. house. 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Ezr 6:7 house (BH בַּ֫יִת);—emph. בַּיְתָ֫א Ezr 5:3 +, -תָ֫ה 5:12; 6:15; cstr. בֵּית(־) 4:24; 5:2 +; sf. בַּיְתִי Dn 4:1 (Baern., cf.M§ 76 c; van d. H. Gi בֵּיתִי), בַּיְתֵהּ 2:17 +; pl. sf. בָּֽתֵּיכוֹן Dn 2:5;— house, of men: Ezr 6:11(×2); Dn 2:5, 17; 3:29; 6:11; of king Ezr 6:4; Dn 4:4, ב׳ מִשְׁתְּיָא 5:10, ב׳ גִּנְזַיָּא דִּי מַלְכָּא Ezr 5:17, cf.7:20 = ב׳ סִפְרַיָּא וגו׳ 6:1; ב׳ מַלְבוּ Dn 4:27 royal residence (of Bab.). house of God, temple at Jerusalem Dn 5:3, 23; Ezr 4:24 + 28 times Ezr. ### Jastrow 1903 בַּיִת: house, household, home bayith owner, landlord; host; private man inmate, attendant. the Temple the Second Temple school, college disciples; body wife. pudenda; marital intercourse store-house, store-room place, town limb, organ shed covering. receptacle, cover inkstand sleeve cases of the T’fillin p [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5d9_5b4_5ea/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** cmp. preced.; v. Ges. H. Dict. s. v. as to various etymological attempts), constr. בֵּית, pl. בָּתִּים. house, household, home. Yoma 11ᵇ ב׳ מיוחד לדירה bayith means a building intended for a dwelling. Ib. מי שמייחד ביתו לו (Var. v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) he who devotes his house (its contents) to himself exclusively (unaccommodating); Arakh. 16ᵃ מי שמיוחד וכ׳.—בעל הב׳ (abbrev. בע"ה) owner, landlord; host; private man, opp. to trader, artisan \&c. Ber. 46ᵃ בע"ה בוצע וכ׳ the host breaks the bread, and the guest says the blessing. Tosef. ib. IV, 14 של בע"ה home-made (bread), opp. גלוסקין; Y. ib. VI, 10ᵇ bot.—Sabb. I, 1 בע"ה the donor, opp. עני the recipient. Gen. R. s. 22; a. v. fr.—בן ב׳ inmate, attendant. Ab. I, 5; a. fr.—פסול הב׳ the degraded (slave) of the house. Gen. R. s. 70. Esp. (הַ)בַּ׳ the Temple. בפני הב׳ in days when the Temple exists, שלא בפני הב׳ when it does not exist. Ḥull. V, 1; a. fr.—ב׳ שני or ב׳ אחרון the Second Temple. Cant. R. to VIII, 9; a. fr.—הר הב׳ Temple Mount, v. הַר. school, college, (collect.) disciples; בֵּית הלל Hillelites \&c. Bets. I, 1; a. fr. Treat. Sof’rim IV, 1 של ב׳ וכ׳ those of the house of \&c. \[Y. Shebi. II, 33ᵈ bot., a. e. דבית … ר׳, usu. דבי, v. בֵּי\]. body. Ber. 44ᵇ אוי לו לב׳ וכ׳ that human body (Rashi: stomach) is to be pitied where vegetables are a constant guest (being the only food). wife. Yoma I, 1 ביתו זו וכ׳ ‘his house’—that means his wife. Ib. 13ᵃ והך לאו ביתו היא but this one (designated for him in case of his wife’s death) cannot be called ‘his house’. Sabb. 118ᵇ; a. fr. Euphem. pudenda; marital intercourse. Y. Sabb. IX, 12ᵃ top; Mikv. VIII, 4 שמשה את בֵּיתָהּ she had intercourse. Ib. כבדה את הב׳ she washed \&c. Y. Sot. I, 16ᶜ bot. אסורה לביתה is forbidden to her husband. Nidd. 5ᵃ מהומת לביתה she hastens to perform her marital duty. Y. ib. I, beg. 48ᵈ. Cmp. חֶדֶר. store-house, store-room. בֵּית העצים wood-room; ב׳ התבן straw-magazine; ב׳ הבקר stable; \&c. Yoma 11ᵃ; a. fr. (geogr.) place, town, in compounds (for which see the respective determinants), e.g. ב׳ בוקיא Beth-Bukya \&c. (anat.) limb, organ, in compounds (v. supra 8)), e.g. ב׳ הבליעה œsophagus, \&c. shed for plants, covering. Shebi. II, 4 (pl.). Y. ib. 33ᵈ.—Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ.—1 receptacle, cover \&c., e.g. ב׳ הדיו inkstand. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. IV, 11; ב׳ יד sleeve, v. אוּנְקְלַי II, \&c.—Men. 34ᵇ, a. e. cases of the T’fillin , pl. בָּתֵּי אָבוֹת paternal home, family. Snh. 38ᵃ שני ב׳ א׳ two families (dynasties); a. fr.—Tosef. Ter. II, 11 בתי אבות = אריסי ב׳ א׳ hereditary land-tenants; B. Bath. 46ᵇ priest’s division. Taan. II, 6; a. fr.; v. אֱנוֹשׁ pl. origin of a law, rule \&c.; cmp. אָב II. Cant. R. to II, 4 ב׳ א׳ של הלכה the origin (principle) of a legal rule. Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 29 wherever the root רעש is used, it means cessation of government, ואיזהו ב׳ א׳ שלהם וכ׳ and where is the origin (determining the meaning) of all of them? (Answ. Jer. LI, 29). Lev. R. s. 1, beg. מב׳ א׳ שלהן וכ׳ from the chief passage (Hag. I, 13 ‘Haggai, the messenger’ \&c.) we learn that prophets are called messengers (or angels).—בֵּית דִּין (abbr. ב"ד) court.—ב"ד של שבעים ואחד or ב"ד הגדול the Great Sanedrin of seventy one members. Snh. I, 5. Y. ib. 19ᵃ bot.; a. fr.—ב"ד נוטה court of an odd number of judges. ב"ד שקול of an even number of judges. Snh. 3ᵇ.—ב"ד שריא a permitting court, opprobrious name of a court too lax in religious affairs. Y. Gitt. VII, 48ᵈ top; Y. Nidd. III, 50ᵈ bot.—\[For all other compounds not self-evident, v. respective determinants.\] \[בית תר, v. בִּיתֵּר.—Gen. R. s. 12 בית שלו, בית של עולם, v. בִּיָּא.\] Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «בַּיִת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b7_5bc_5d9_5b4_5ea/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Daniel 4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.1/) אֲנָ֣ה נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֗ר שְׁלֵ֤ה הֲוֵית֙ בְּבֵיתִ֔י וְרַעְנַ֖ן בְּהֵיכְלִֽי׃ *Word for word:* I Nebuchadnezzar at.ease I.was in house my and flourishing in palace my *JPS 1917:* I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. [Ezra 7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.19/) וּמָֽאנַיָּא֙ דִּֽי־מִתְיַהֲבִ֣ין לָ֔ךְ לְפָלְחָ֖ן בֵּ֣ית אֱלָהָ֑ךְ הַשְׁלֵ֕ם קֳדָ֖ם אֱלָ֥הּ יְרוּשְׁלֶֽם׃ *Word for word:* and the vessels which \[have.been\].given to you for the.worship of.the.house of your.God make.complete before the.God of.Jerusalem *JPS 1917:* And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem. - ← previous: [בִּית](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5ea.md) - next →: [בָּל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5dc.md) - ↑ back to [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1489.md)