בית

בֵּית • (bēṯ)

1. construct form of בַּיְתָא (bayṯā)

בֵּית • (bēṯ)

1. beth, the second letter of the Aramaic alphabet.

From Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒂍 (bītum), Arabic بَيْت (bayt) and Amharic ቤት (bet).

• (בַּיִת, báyit):
  • (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈbajt/
  • (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈba.jiθ/ [ˈbaː.jiθ]
  • (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈba.jiθ/ [ˈbæː.jiθ]
  • (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈba.jɪs/
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈba.(j)it/

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• (בֵּית, bét):
  • (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /beːt/, [beːθ]
  • (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /beːt/ [beːθ]
  • (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /beθ/ [beθ]
  • (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /bejs/
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /bet/

בַּיִת • (báyit) m (plural indefinite בָּתִּים, singular construct בֵּית־, plural construct בָּתֵּי־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form בָּיִת) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. house
2. school
3. (poetry) stanza (a unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse)
4. verse (part of a song)
5. (with definite article) the Temple
   • 1170 CE, Maimonides, Mishneh Torah:

     וְרִבִּי יוֹחָנָן חִבַּר הַתַּלְמוּד הַיְּרוּשְׁלְמִי בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל אַחַר חׇרְבַּן הַבַּיִת בְּקֵרוּב מִשְּׁלוֹשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה.

     v'ribí yokhanán khibár hatalmúd hay'rushl'mí b'érets yisra'él akhár khorbán habáyit b'kerúv mishlósh me'ót shaná

     And Rabbi Yochanan compiled the Jerusalem Talmud in Eretz Yisrael after the destruction of the Temple, near the 3rd century.

6. household; family

• → Yiddish: בית (beys)
  • → Alemannic German: Beiz
  • → German: Beiz

• H1004 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “בַּיִת”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 72c
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 167b
• “בית” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

בֵּית • (béyt, beṯ) f

1. alternative form of בי״ת

• אָלֶפְבֵּית (alefbet)

הַבַּיִת • (habáyit) m

1. clipping of בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ

בִּיֵּת • (biyét) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of ביית

בֻּיַּת • (buyát) (pu'al construction)

1. defective spelling of בוית

Borrowed from English byte, by similarity to בַּיִת (báyit, “house”).

בַּיִת • (báyit) m (plural indefinite בָּתִּים)

1. (computing, most commonly) byte

From Hebrew בֵּית, singular construct form of Hebrew בַּֽיִת.

• (YIVO, Northeastern) IPA^(key): /bɛɪ̯s/
• (Poylish) IPA^(key): /baɪ̯s/

בית • (beys) m or f

1. beth (second letter of the Hebrew script)
2. (in compounds) house

• → Alemannic German: Beiz
• → German: Beiz