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:
Ezra 4:4: "of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,"
Nehemiah 2:5: "unto the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build"
Nehemiah 2:17: "thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be"
Nehemiah 2:18: "that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good"
Nehemiah 2:20: "will prosper us; therefore we his servants and build: but ye have no portion, nor right,"
Nehemiah 3:1: "rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built gate; they"
Nehemiah 3:2: "And next unto him built the men of Jericho. And next to them built"
Nehemiah 3:2: "of Jericho. And next to them built the son of Imri."
Nehemiah 3:3: "gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up"
Nehemiah 3:13: "and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars"
Nehemiah 3:14: "of part he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars"
Nehemiah 3:15: "of part he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks"
Nehemiah 4:1: "heard that we built he was wroth, and took great indignation,"
Nehemiah 4:3: "Even that which they build, a fox go up, he shall even break down"
Nehemiah 4:5: "from before thee: for before the builders."
Nehemiah 4:6: " So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half"
Nehemiah 4:10: "so that we able to build the wall."
Nehemiah 4:17: " They which built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought"
Nehemiah 4:18: " For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded"
Nehemiah 4:18: "girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded was by"
Nehemiah 6:1: "of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach"
Nehemiah 6:6: "for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king,"
Nehemiah 7:1: "Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers"
Nehemiah 7:4: "were few therein, and the houses were not built."
Nehemiah 12:29: "and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built round about"
Job 3:14: "kings and counselors of the earth, which built desolate places"
Job 12:14: "Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening."
Job 20:19: "the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not;"
Job 22:23: "thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles."
Job 27:18: " He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh."
Psalms 28:5: "nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy build them up."
Psalms 51:18: "in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem."
Psalms 69:35: "God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell"
Psalms 78:69: " And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established forever."
Psalms 89:2: "For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens."
Psalms 89:4: "Thy seed will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations."
Psalms 102:16: "When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory."
Psalms 118:22: "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."
Psalms 122:3: "Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:"
Psalms 127:1: "for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labor"
Psalms 127:1: "build the house, they labor that build it: except the LORD"
Psalms 147:2: "The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel."
Proverbs 9:1: "Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:"
Proverbs 14:1: "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
Proverbs 24:3: "Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established:"
Proverbs 24:27: "and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house."
Ecclesiastes 2:4: "I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:"
Ecclesiastes 3:3: "a time to break down, and a time to build up;"
Ecclesiastes 9:14: "king against it, and built great bulwarks against"
Song of Solomon 4:4: "Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand"
