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# בִּית

Biblical Aramaic

**lodge** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lodge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּית: vb.denom. (lodge,) pass the night [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. (lodge,) pass the night (𝔗 id.);— Pf. 3 ms. בָּת Dn 6:19.

### Jastrow 1903

בִּית: to go in, lodge, pass the night. to keep over night, postpone burial [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5ea/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , inf. בּוּת (sec. r. of בוא) to go in, lodge, pass the night. Dan. VI, 19. Targ. Gen. XXXII, 22; a. fr.—Pes. 107ᵃ בת טוות (Dan. l. c.) he went to bed without tasting food. Snh. 95ᵃ (prov.) בת דינא וכ׳ if punishment is procrastinated, punishment is gone. Taan. 24ᵇ ביתו כולי וכ׳ go ye all to bed fasting. Pes. 42ᵃ מיא דביתו (Chald. transl. of the ambiguous מים שֶׁלָּנוּ) water kept in vessels over night. Ber. 60ᵇ בת בדברא he slept in the open field. Snh. 63ᵇ.—Ib. 109ᵃ top בעי למֵיבַת he wanted to stay over night; a. e.—Part. בָּאֵית. Targ. Is. LVIII, 5. same. Erub. 73ᵃ (opp. to taking meals). to keep over night, postpone burial. Snh. 47ᵃ מֵבִית ליה למת dare one postpone the burial of the dead?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he passed the night (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.19/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן אֲזַ֨ל מַלְכָּ֤א לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙ וּבָ֣ת טְוָ֔ת וְדַחֲוָ֖ן לָא־הַנְעֵ֣ל קָֽדָמ֑וֹהִי וְשִׁנְתֵּ֖הּ נַדַּ֥ת עֲלֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* then he.went the king to palace his and he.passed.the.night fasting and diversions not he.brought.in before him and sleep his it.fled on him

*JPS 1917:* Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5ea/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).