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# בִּיתָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1055

**house** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

house [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1055/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּיתָן: house, palace [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1055/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] house, palace—abs. הַבִּיתָן Est 7:7, 8 (גִּנַּת הב׳) cstr. בִּיתַן Est 1:5 (גִּנַּת ב׳ הַמֶּלֶךְ), all garden of בּ׳; according to DieulafoyRÉJ 1888, cclxxvii. throne-room, syn. of apadâna in meaning, but cf. אַפֶּדֶן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the palace (2); of the palace (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.5/#tree)

וּבִמְל֣וֹאת ׀ הַיָּמִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה עָשָׂ֣ה הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ לְכָל־הָעָ֣ם הַנִּמְצְאִים֩ בְּשׁוּשַׁ֨ן הַבִּירָ֜ה לְמִגָּ֧דוֹל וְעַד־קָטָ֛ן מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים בַּחֲצַ֕ר גִּנַּ֥ת בִּיתַ֖ן הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and when were.completed the days (the) these he.made the king for all the people \[who were\].found in Susa the citadel (to) from great and unto insignificant a.feast seven days in the.courtyard of.the.garden of.the.palace of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And when these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the castle, both great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;

[Esther 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.7/#tree)

וְהַמֶּ֜לֶךְ קָ֤ם בַּחֲמָתוֹ֙ מִמִּשְׁתֵּ֣ה הַיַּ֔יִן אֶל־גִּנַּ֖ת הַבִּיתָ֑ן וְהָמָ֣ן עָמַ֗ד לְבַקֵּ֤שׁ עַל־נַפְשׁוֹ֙ מֵֽאֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה כִּ֣י רָאָ֔ה כִּֽי־כָלְתָ֥ה אֵלָ֛יו הָרָעָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ת הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and the king he.rose.up in rage his from the.feast of.(the) wine into the.garden of the.palace and Haman he.remained to seek on life his from Esther the queen (dm) he.saw (dm).that it.was.determined against him (the) harm from with the king

*JPS 1917:* And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman remained to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1055.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1055/): 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).