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
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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
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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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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
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And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
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How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
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Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
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Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
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For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
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And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
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For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
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For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
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Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
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And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
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And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
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He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
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And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
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And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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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.
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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