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:
1 Kings 8:16: "city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name"
1 Kings 8:17: "the heart of David my father to build a house for the name God"
1 Kings 8:18: "Whereas it was in to build a house unto my name, thou didst well"
1 Kings 8:19: "Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son"
1 Kings 8:19: "thy son that shall come forth he shall build the house unto my name."
1 Kings 8:20: "as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God"
1 Kings 8:27: "thee; how much less this house that I have built?"
1 Kings 8:43: "this house, which I have built, is called by thy name."
1 Kings 8:44: "which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:"
1 Kings 8:48: "which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:"
1 Kings 9:1: "And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's"
1 Kings 9:3: "this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there forever;"
1 Kings 9:10: "of twenty years, when Solomon had built houses,"
1 Kings 9:15: "king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house,"
1 Kings 9:17: "And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,"
1 Kings 9:19: "and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land"
1 Kings 9:24: "of David unto her house Solomon had built for her: then did he build"
1 Kings 9:24: "her house Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo."
1 Kings 9:25: "upon which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that"
1 Kings 10:4: "wisdom, and the house he had built,"
1 Kings 11:7: "Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill"
1 Kings 11:27: "his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired"
1 Kings 11:38: "did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built"
1 Kings 11:38: "thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel"
1 Kings 12:25: "Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out"
1 Kings 12:25: "and dwelt therein; and went out and built Penuel."
1 Kings 14:23: "For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every"
1 Kings 15:17: "went up against Judah, and built that he might not suffer"
1 Kings 15:21: "when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building building of Ramah, and dwelt"
1 Kings 15:22: "and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had built; and king Asa built with them"
1 Kings 15:22: "had built; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah."
1 Kings 15:23: "and the cities which he built, are they not written in"
1 Kings 16:24: "of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called"
1 Kings 16:24: "the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer,"
1 Kings 16:32: "in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria."
1 Kings 16:34: "In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram"
1 Kings 18:32: "And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench"
1 Kings 22:39: "and the ivory house he made, and all the cities that he built,"
1 Kings 22:39: "and all the cities that he built, are they not written in"
2 Kings 12:11: "of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 14:22: "He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king"
2 Kings 15:35: "still He built the higher gate of the house"
2 Kings 16:11: "And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king"
2 Kings 16:18: "And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without,"
2 Kings 17:9: "against their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower"
2 Kings 21:3: " For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed;"
2 Kings 21:4: " And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem"
2 Kings 21:5: " And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house"
2 Kings 22:6: "Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair"
2 Kings 23:13: "of corruption, Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination"
