[37-1] In Arabic the term baït has the same signification as in Hebrew.
[40-1] The original Hebrew term means “houses of pleasure.”
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[CURIOSITIES OF CERTAIN PROPER NAMES IN THE BIBLE]
Shakespeare, in one of his plays, asks “What's in a name?” That he himself believed that there was a good deal in a name is shown by his fondness for reading certain characteristics into the personality of the possessors of certain names. Thus, for example, in the dialogue between King Richard and Gaunt (cp. Richard II, Act 2), the former says:—
What comfort, man? How is it with aged Gaunt?
Gaunt. Oh, how that name befits my composition!
Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old!
With this may be compared Falstaff's remark in 2 King Henry IV, Act 3, Scene 2, where he says:—“I told you John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin.”