House; place; receptacle

In the Hebrew Bible: bayit, house · bet-ʾel, Beth-el · bet leḥem, Bethlehem · bitan, house

In the Qurʾan: bayt, houses · bayyata, plan by night · bayāt, night · yabītu, spend night

Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. ʾajwaf, at the ʿayn: hollow middle.

Passages

• Genesis 13:3: He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
• Mark 2:1: When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.
• Acts 7:47: But Solomon built him a house.
• Matthew 10:12: As you enter into the household, greet it.
• Sūrat Quraysh سورة قريش “Quraysh” 106:3: So let them worship the Lord of this House,
• Sūrat al-Furqān سورة الفرقان “The Criterion” 25:64: And who spend the night before their Lord, prostrate and standing,
• Sūrat al-Shuʿarāʾ سورة الشعراء “The Poets” 26:149: Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain, being skilful?

The whole card on ocabs.org · The Consolation of Consonants

Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.

The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.