Talk:God's House

RFV discussion: January–July 2015
'God's house' is obviously very prevalent in a Christian sense, and its Arabic form meaning Kaaba as well, but I am unsure about this capitalised form having an idiomatic meaning of 'the Kaaba' in English. I looked and couldn't see it using Google Books. Kaixinguo (talk) 16:59, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps there should be an entry for God's house. Kaixinguo (talk) 17:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Forgive me for my late entrance, but "God's House" in Islam is the bait al-ma‘mūr (بيت المعمور), which Muhammad is said to have visited during his ascent to heaven from Jerusalem (see Isra and Mi'raj), not the Kaaba. Aperiarcam (talk) 21:34, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the user who added the entry is known for (and was blocked for) substandard entries and definitions. I've just deleted the entry. Some citations were placed on the citations page, but I dispute that they're using this (or any idiomatic) sense. - -sche (discuss) 21:49, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * To be fair, the Arabic term "بيت الله" ("house of God") is sometimes applied to the Kaaba, but "بيت" is used a lot more loosely in Semitic (cf. בית) than "house" in English; in any case "God's house" sounds almost flippant to me in English, so I think we need English citations to justify this term instead of just calquing it from the Arabic epithet. Aperiarcam (talk) 22:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)