HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1006
בַּ֫יִת
ba.yit — Bajith
§ Bajith = "house" a place in Palestine
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Bajith
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
House, probably a city of Moab, which had a celebrated idol-temple (Isa. 15:2). It has also been regarded as denoting simply the temple of the idol of Moab as opposed to the “high place.”
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.