'House' in the Bible

Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.