Genesis 42:19
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
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Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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בַּיִת
bayith · bah'-yith
118 times translated as this KJV form2,046 total Strong's occurrences
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 42:19Strong's last: Zechariah 14:2
Open full H1004 profile →οἰκία
oikía · oy-kee'-ah
8 times translated as this KJV form96 total Strong's occurrences
properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication, a family (especially domestics)
Strong's KJV usage: :--home, house(-hold).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 19:29Strong's last: 2 Timothy 3:6
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oîkos · oy'-kos
5 times translated as this KJV form118 total Strong's occurrences
a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative); by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--home, house(-hold), temple.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 11:8Strong's last: Titus 1:11
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bayith · bah-yith
2 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: house.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 2:5Strong's last: Daniel 3:29
Open full H1005 profile →אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh · al-maw-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
a widow; also a desolate place
Strong's KJV usage: desolate house (palace), widow.
Strong's first: Isaiah 13:22Strong's last: Isaiah 13:22
Open full H490 profile →נָאָה
nâʼâh · naw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a home; figuratively, a pasture
Strong's KJV usage: habitation, house, pasture, pleasant place.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 83:12Strong's last: Psalms 83:12
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H1004
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
H1004
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
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And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
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And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
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And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
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And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
H1004
Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
H1004
The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
English meaning and historical usage.
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house
HOUSE, noun hous. [Latin casa; Heb. to put on, to cover.]
1. In a general sense, a building or shed intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but appropriately, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, mansion or abode for any of the human species. It may be of any size and composed of any materials whatever, wood, stone, brick, etc.
2. An edifice or building appropriated to the worship of God; a temple; a church; as the house of God.
3. A monastery; a college; as a religious house
4. The manner of living; the table.
He keeps a good house or a miserable house
5. In astrology, the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavens.
6. A family of ancestors; descendants and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe. It particularly denotes a noble family or an illustrious race; as the house of Austria; the house of Hanover. So in Scripture, the house of Israel, or of Judah.
Two of a house few ages can afford.
7. One of the estates of a kingdom assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in their legislative capacity, and holding their place by right or by election. Thus we say, the house of lords or peers of Great Britain; the house of commons; the house of representatives. In most of the United States, the legislatures consist of two houses, the senate, and the house of representatives or delegates.
8. The quorum of a legislative body; the number of representatives assembled who are constitutionally empowered to enact laws. Hence we say, there is a sufficient number of representatives present to form a house
9. In Scripture, those who dwell in a house and compose a family; a household.
Cornelius was a devout man, and feared God with all his house Acts 10:2.
10. Wealth; estate.
Ye devour widows' houses. Matthew 23:38.
11. The grave; as the house appointed for all living. Job 30:23.
12. Household affairs; domestic concerns.
Set thy house in order. 2 Kings 20:1.
13. The body; the residence of the soul in this world; as our earthly house 2 Corinthians 5:1.
14. The church among the Jews.
Moses was faithful in all his house Hebrews 3:2.
15. A place of residence. Egypt is called the house of bondage. Exodus 13:3.
16. A square, or division on a chess board.
HOUSE, verb transitive houz. To cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to shelter; to protect by covering; as, to house wood; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
1. To admit to residence; to harbor.
Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
2. To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
3. To drive to a shelter.
HOUSE, verb intransitive houz. To take shelter or lodgings; to keep abode; to reside.
To house with darkness and with death.
1. To have an astrological station in the heavens.
Where Saturn houses.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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