ba.yit denotes a dwelling or sanctuary building, and in family settings a household or ancestral line.

The supplied verses most often use the term for the LORD’s house as a building to be built, furnished, or served. It also identifies personal residences, households and fathers’ houses, and, more rarely, named buildings or facilities.

1. The LORD’s house or sanctuary building · dominant

   Construct forms identify the house of the LORD in building and service contexts: in 1 Chronicles 22:2 the APB renders the clause "building the house of God," and in 1 Chronicles 23:28 it describes service in the house of the LORD. Absolute singular forms occur where David charges Solomon to build such a house in 1 Chronicles 22:6 and where the house is described as yet to be built in 1 Chronicles 22:19.

   1 Chronicles 22:21 Chronicles 22:61 Chronicles 22:191 Chronicles 23:281 Chronicles 24:191 Chronicles 25:6
2. Household, family group, or ancestral line · common

   The construct form marks Saul’s house as the group that died with him in 1 Chronicles 10:6 and marks fathers’ houses in genealogical and organizational clauses in 1 Chronicles 23:24. In 1 Chronicles 17:23, the clause concerns David’s servant and his house being established forever, placing the term in a continuing family-line context.

   1 Chronicles 10:61 Chronicles 12:301 Chronicles 17:231 Chronicles 17:271 Chronicles 23:241 Chronicles 24:4
3. Personal dwelling or residence · common

   The singular term refers to a place built for David in 1 Chronicles 14:1 and to David’s cedar house in 1 Chronicles 17:1. Construct forms also locate the ark at Obed-edom’s house in 1 Chronicles 13:13 and describe people returning each to his house in 1 Chronicles 16:43.

   1 Chronicles 13:131 Chronicles 14:11 Chronicles 15:11 Chronicles 16:431 Chronicles 17:11 Chronicles 17:5
4. Named buildings and facilities · rare

   Plural construct forms designate multiple structures in 1 Chronicles 28:11, where the APB renders a plan for "its houses" alongside treasuries and chambers. In 1 Chronicles 26:15, a singular construct form occurs in the assignment "the house of the storehouses"; 1 Kings 13:32 likewise refers to houses associated with high places in Samarian cities.

   1 Chronicles 26:151 Chronicles 28:111 Kings 13:32

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses "house," while also rendering family contexts as "household" or "fathers' houses" and plural building contexts as "houses." These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for each token.