'House' in the Bible

The LORD told Abram, "You are to leave your land, your relatives, and your father's house and go to the land that I'm going to show you.

Look!" Abram said, "You haven't given me any offspring, so a servant born in my house is going to be my heir."

Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.

The servant born in your house or the one purchased with money is to be circumcised. My covenant is to remain in your flesh as an eternal covenant.

Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the servants born in his house or purchased with his money every male among the men of his household and circumcised them that very day, just as God had spoken to him.

and said, "Look, my lords! Please come inside your servant's house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and be on your way." But they responded, "No, we would rather spend the night in the town square."

But Lot kept urging them strongly, so they turned aside and entered his house. He prepared a festival and baked unleavened flat bread for them, and they ate.

Before they could lie down, all the men of Sodom and its outskirts, both young and old, surrounded the house.

But the angels inside reached out, dragged Lot back into the house with them, shut the door,

and blinded the men who were at the entrance of the house, from the least important to the greatest, so they were unable to find the doorway.

When God caused me to journey from my father's house, I asked her to do me this favor and say, "He's my brother.'"

"The LORD God of heaven, who brought me from my father's house and from my family's land, who spoke to me and promised me "I will give this land to your descendants,' will send his angel ahead of you, and you are to acquire a wife for my son from there.

He asked her, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

"Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hasn't held back his gracious love and faithfulness from my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master's relatives!"

"Come on," Laban said. "The LORD has blessed you! So why are you standing out here when I've prepared some space in the house and a place for the camels?"

So the servant went to the house and unbridled the camels. They provided straw and feed for the camels and water for washing his feet and those of the men with him.

In mounting terror, he cried out, "How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God's house and the gateway to heaven!"

and returns me safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God,

this stone that I've erected in the form of a pillar will be God's house, and I'll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me."

When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him, kissed him, and brought him back to his house. Then Jacob told Laban about everything that had happened.

Then Rachel and Leah asked him, "Do we have anything left of inheritance remaining in our father's house?

Now, you can go if you must go, because you certainly are longing to go to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"

Now that you've searched all my belongings, what did you find that belongs to your house? Set it here in front of our relatives and we'll let them judge between us!

I've lived in your house these 20 years serving fourteen years for your two daughters and another six years for your flocks. During all that time you changed my wages ten times.

but Jacob set out for Succoth, built a house there, and constructed some cattle shelters. He named the place Succoth.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took back Dinah from Shechem's house, and left.

After this, Judah told his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Go live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." But he was really thinking, ""otherwise, Shelah might die like his brothers." So Tamar left and lived in her father's house.

But the LORD was with Joseph. He became a very prosperous man while in the house of his Egyptian master,

But he refused, telling his master's wife, "Look! My master doesn't have to worry about anything in the house with me in charge, and he has entrusted everything into my care.

No one has more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld nothing from me, except you, and that's because you're his wife. So how can I commit such a horrible evil? How can I sin against God?"

One day, though, he went into the house to do his work. None of the household servants were inside,

So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in prison in his master's house, "Why are you so sad today?"

Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh because, he said, "God has made me forget all of my hard life and my father's house."