בִּיתָן
bitan · palace
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1055 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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bitan (בִּיתָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “palace”.
A large house of the king.
How to say it
bi·tan
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The king's great house.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Esther 1:5
And when these days were completed, the king made for all the people who were present in Susa, the fortress, from the great to the small, a banquet of seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
- Esther 7:7
And the king rose in his fury from the banquet of wine and went to the garden of the palace; and Haman stayed to petition Esther the queen for his life, for he saw that evil had been determined against him by the king.
- Esther 7:8
And the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even subdue the queen with me present in the house?” The word went out of the mouth of the king, and they covered Haman’s face.