Vocabulary
בַּיִת
house; school; stanza (a unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse); verse (part of a song); the Temple; household; family; byte
Masculine noun
בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ
Beth-shemesh, Beit Shemesh (a city in central Israel); (historical) Heliopolis (the ancient capital of the 13th nome of Lower Egypt, located in the northern suburbs of modern Cairo, Egypt)
Name
בֵּית לֶחֶם
Bethlehem (a city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus)
Name
בֵּית צוּר
Beth-Zur, an ancient Israelite town belonging to the Tribe of Judah located in the modern day West Bank near the cities of Halhul and Gedor.
Name
בֵּית מַעֲכָה
Abel-beth-maachah, an Israelite archaeological tell in Israel 2 km south of Metula, near Tel Dan. Also the name of multiple Biblical characters.
Name
בֵּית סֹהַר
prison (a place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government)
Masculine noun
בֵּית הַנִּבְחָרִים
House of Representatives (United States, Japan, Australia, Cyprus, Netherlands, etc.); House of Commons (Britain, Canada); Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
Masculine noun