لفظة بيت في سفر يشوع : دراسة لغوية سامية مقارنة

Abstract EN

In this paper we have dealt with the word " בַיִת " in the Book of Joshua because it makes one of those that highly employed the word בַיִת" " in the Old Testament.

The Book of Joshua comes sixth in the order of tanakh wich was written by Joshua son of Noon in Palestine during the fifteenth century B.C.

and it covers a three-decade era extending from the death of Moses til the death of Joshua son of Noon.

The word " בַיִת " in this paper refers to the place, where expressions are made by a noun modified by a noun .

The modifier is" " בַיִת , and the modified is another noun.

Herein, we relied on the BDB dictionary as well as on a Concordance of Names in the Holy Bible .why we relied on the Concordance of Names in the Bible is that there are names mentioned independently in the BDB but whose meanings are either not given or given indirectly.