Bayit in its Aramaic form appears 44 times almost exclusively in Ezra and Daniel, where it denotes a physical structure — whether a private dwelling, a royal palace, or most often the Jerusalem temple. The emphatic state bayta and construct beth mirror the far more common Biblical Hebrew bayit but are confined to the Aramaic sections of Scripture. Fully 28 of the 44 occurrences in Ezra refer to the 'house of God,' reflecting the post-exilic preoccupation with temple reconstruction. The multilingual glosses — Spanish 'casa de,' French 'maison,' German 'Haus' — uniformly render the concrete architectural sense with no semantic variation.