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Nave Topical Bible
• Treasure-Houses
• House of God
• House
Thompson Chain Reference
• House-Keepers
• House of God
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Houses; Bed: & Courts, Skins
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Houses
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Parish House
• House of God
• House of Bishops
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American Tract Society
• House
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• House
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Meeting-House
Chabad Knowledge Base
• House of Shammai
• House of Hillel
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Treasure Houses
• Shearing-House
• House
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Shearing House
• Several House
• House
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Shearing House
• King's Treasure House
• House of the Rolls
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Shearing-House, the
• House
• Garden House
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• House (2)
• House
• Father's House
King James Dictionary
• House
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Shearing-House
• House of God
• House
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sacrament House
• Prayer, House of
• O House of Nazareth the Blest
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• House
People's Bible Dictionary
• House
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Shearing-house The
• Millo The House Of
• House
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Prison, Prison-House
• House (3)
• House (2)
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• House
Wilson's Bible Types
• House
Webster Dictionary
• Treasure-House
• Tiring-House
• Tippling-House
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Houses
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Abbot's House
• Alien-Houses
• Appomattox Court House
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Asuppim; House of Asuppim
• Eden, House of
• Far House
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• House
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Bath-House
• Chapter-House
• Charnel-House
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Beehive Houses
• Brandenburg, the House of
• Clearing-House
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Chapter House
• House of Guise
• House of Malatesta
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Catechumens, House of
• House
• Lousada (of Peak House)
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Lexicons
• ܐܰܘܨܪܳܐ
• ܒ݁ܰܝܬ݁ܳܐ
• αὐλή
• δεσμωτήριον
• δῶμα
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• אַלְמָנָה
• בַּיִת בַּת, בֵּית, אַשְׁבֵּעַ בֵּית, הַגָּן , בֵּית תּוֹגַרְמָה
• בַּיִת
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(בִּיַת, ba'yith, which is used with much latitude, and in the "construct" form בֵּית, beyth, Anglicized "Beth," [q.v.] enters into the composition of many proper names; Gr. οικος, or some derivative of it), a dwelling in general, whether literally, as house, tent, palace, citadel, tomb, derivatively as tabernacle, temple, heaven, or metaphorically as family. (See PALACE).

I. History and Sources of Comparison. — Although, in Oriental language, every tent (see Gesen. Thes. p. 32) may be regarded as a house (Harmer, Obs. 1, 194), yet the distinction between the permanent dwelling-house and the tent must have taken rise from the moment of the division of mankind into dwellers in tents and builders of cities, i.e. of permanent habitations (Genesis 4:17; Genesis 4:20; Isaiah 38:2). The agricultural and pastoral forms of life are described in Scripture as of equally ancient origin. Cain was a husbandman, and Abel a keeper of sheep. The former is a settled, the latter an unsettled mode of life. Hence we find that Cain, when the murder of his brother constrained him to wander abroad, built a town in the land where he settled. At the same time, doubtless, those who followed the same mode of life as Abel, dwelt in tents, capable of being taken from one place to another, when the want of fresh pastures constrained those removals which are so frequent among people of pastoral habits. We are not required to suppose that Cain's town was more than a collection of huts. (See CITY).

Our information respecting the abodes of men in the ages before the Deluge is however, too scanty to afford much ground for notice. The enterprise at Babel, to say nothing of Egypt, shows that the constructive arts had made considerable progress during that obscure but interesting period; for we are bound in reason to conclude that the arts possessed by man in the ages immediately following the Deluge existed before that great catastrophe. (See ANTEDILUVIANS).

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