Definition

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

Etymology

probably from H1129 (בָּנָה) abbreviated;

Where the KJV renders it

• 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)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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