Strong's #1129: banah (pronounced baw-naw')
a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively):--(begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bânâh
1) to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to build, rebuild
1a2) to build a house (i.e., establish a family)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be built
1b2) to be rebuilt
1b3) established (of restored exiles) (figuratively)
1b4) established (made permanent)
1b5) to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 376 times:
Joshua 22:29: "this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings,"
Joshua 24:13: "labor, and cities which ye built and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards"
Judges 1:26: "went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name"
Judges 6:24: "Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto"
Judges 6:26: " And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock,"
Judges 6:28: "was offered upon the altar that was built."
Judges 18:28: "and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt"
Judges 21:4: "on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered"
Judges 21:23: "and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt"
Ruth 4:11: "and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do"
1 Samuel 2:35: "according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build house; and he shall walk before"
1 Samuel 7:17: "and there he built an altar unto the LORD."
1 Samuel 14:35: "And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD."
1 Samuel 14:35: "unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD."
2 Samuel 5:9: "it the city of David. And David built from Millo and inward."
2 Samuel 5:11: "and carpenters, and masons: and they built David"
2 Samuel 7:5: "Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell"
2 Samuel 7:7: "Israel, saying, Why build ye not me a house of cedar?"
2 Samuel 7:13: "He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom"
2 Samuel 7:27: "hast revealed to thy servant, I will build thee a house: therefore"
2 Samuel 24:21: "the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague"
2 Samuel 24:25: "And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings."
1 Kings 2:36: "and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, there,"
1 Kings 3:1: "of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD,"
1 Kings 3:2: "because there was no house built of the LORD, until those"
1 Kings 5:3: "my father could not build a house unto the name of the LORD his God"
1 Kings 5:5: "And, behold, I purpose to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God, as"
1 Kings 5:5: "thy throne in thy room, he shall build a house unto my name."
1 Kings 5:18: "And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber"
1 Kings 5:18: "And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber"
1 Kings 5:18: "so they prepared timber to build the house."
1 Kings 6:1: "Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD."
1 Kings 6:2: "which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore"
1 Kings 6:5: "And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls"
1 Kings 6:7: "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer"
1 Kings 6:7: "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer"
1 Kings 6:7: "of iron heard in the house, while it was in building."
1 Kings 6:9: " So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams"
1 Kings 6:10: " And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits"
1 Kings 6:12: "house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes,"
1 Kings 6:14: "So Solomon built the house, and finished"
1 Kings 6:15: " And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,"
1 Kings 6:16: " And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both"
1 Kings 6:16: "the floor with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle,"
1 Kings 6:36: " And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row"
1 Kings 6:38: "thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building"
1 Kings 7:1: "But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished"
1 Kings 7:2: " He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits,"
1 Kings 8:13: " I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in forever."
1 Kings 8:13: "I have surely built I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in forever."
