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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Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
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And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
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And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
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And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
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Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
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I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
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The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
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And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
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And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
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And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
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And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
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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