Bayt (Arabic: or Hebrew: , both meaning 'house'; there are similar words in various

Semitic languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew language, Hebrew, Maltese language, Maltese, Modern South Arabian language ...

), also spelled bayit, bayyit, bait, beit, beth, bet, etc., may refer to:

All pages with titles containing ''Bayt''

Jewish religious terms

Temple Mount The Temple Mount (), also known as the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem, Old City of Jerusalem that has been venerated as a ...

, Hebrew ''Har ha-Bayit'', "Mount of the House" * Beth Israel (disambiguation)Beth Israel, "House of Israel"

Islamic terms

* ''

Ahl al-Bayt () refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In Sunni Islam, the term has also been extended to all descendants of the Banu Hashim (Muhammad's clan) and even to all Muslims. In Shia Islam, the term is limited to Muhammad, his daugh ...

'', the ''People of the House'', referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims

Synagogues

* Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Place-names and derivates

In alphabetical order including the articles.

Bayit

* Bayit VeGan

Bayt

A few outstanding ones: * Bayt al-Allah (the Kaaba) * Bayt al-Muqaddas (Jerusalem)

Beit

* Beit Jala *

Beit Sahour Beit Sahour or Beit Sahur (; Palestine grid 170/123) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian town east of Bethlehem, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank in the State of Palestine. The city is under the administration of the Palestinian Nat ...

Beit Shemesh Beit Shemesh () is a city council (Israel), city located approximately west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District. A center of Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodoxy, Beit Shemesh has a population of 170,683 as of 2024. The city is named afte ...

* Beit Hanina * Beitin * Betar (fortress) ** Battir

Beth

* Beth Alpha * Beth-Horon * Beth Shean * Bethany (disambiguation)Bethany *

Bethel Bethel (, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; ; ) was an ancient Israelite city and sacred space that is frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Bet ...

/Beth-El * Bethesda *

Bethlehem Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem, and the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. It had a population of people, as of . The city's economy is strongly linked to Tourism in the State of Palesti ...

Bethsaida Bethsaida ( ; from ; from Aramaic and , , from the Hebrew root ; ), also known as Julias or Julia (), is a place mentioned in the New Testament. Julias lay in an administrative district known as Gaulonitis, in modern-day Golan Heights. Histor ...

Institutions and organizations

First see above under "All pages with titles beginning with ''Bayt''" and "All pages with titles containing ''Bayt''". Here only those not spelled with "bayt". * Bayit Lepletot, Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls * Bayit Leumi Israeli political organization * Bayit Yehudi – 'The Jewish Home' political party * Bayt al-hikmah (House of Wisdom); Umayyad library in Damascus, and Abbasid library in Baghdad *

Betar The Betar Movement (), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionism, Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. It was one of several right-wing youth movements tha ...

/Beitar, Jewish political organization; derived from Betar fortress

Other

Bayt (poetry) A bayt (, , ) is a metrical unit of Arabic, Azerbaijani, Ottoman, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu poetry. In Arabic poetry, a bayt corresponds to a single line divided into two hemistichs of equal length, each containing two, three or fo ...

, lit. 'house', a metrical unit of Asian poetry