to take in as guest
To host in one's home a person who happened to be passing by.
("Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window... and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and all your family" - Joshua 2:18, the spies to Rahab in Jericho)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
אָסָף לְבֵיתוֹ, אָסַף אֶל בֵּיתוֹ
Definition (Hebrew)
אֵרֵחַ בְּבֵיתוֹ אָדָם שֶׁהִזְדַּמֵּן בְּדַרְכּוֹ .
("הִנֵּה אֲנַחְנוּ בָאִים בָּאָרֶץ אֶת תִּקְוַת חוּט הַשָּׁנִי הַזֶּה תִּקְשְׁרִי בַּחַלּוֹן ...וְאֶת אַחַיִךְ וְאֵת כָּל בֵּית אָבִיךְ תַּאַסְפִי אֵלַיִךְ הַבָּיְתָה"- יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ב יח, הַמְּרַגְּלִים לְרָחָב שֶׁבִּירִיחוֹ)