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:
Song of Solomon 8:9: "If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if"
Isaiah 5:2: "it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also"
Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."
Isaiah 25:2: "a palace to be no city; it shall never be built."
Isaiah 44:26: "and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places"
Isaiah 44:28: "my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid."
Isaiah 45:13: "all his ways: he shall build and he shall let go my captives, not"
Isaiah 58:12: "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;"
Isaiah 60:10: "And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath"
Isaiah 61:4: " And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste"
Isaiah 65:21: " And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit"
Isaiah 65:22: "They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat:"
Isaiah 66:1: "is my footstool: where that ye build unto me? and where is the place"
Jeremiah 1:10: "and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."
Jeremiah 7:31: " And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn"
Jeremiah 12:16: "my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people."
Jeremiah 18:9: "a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant"
Jeremiah 19:5: " They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire"
Jeremiah 22:13: "Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong;"
Jeremiah 22:14: "That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows;"
Jeremiah 24:6: "to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not"
Jeremiah 29:5: " Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit"
Jeremiah 29:28: "us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant"
Jeremiah 30:18: "on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain"
Jeremiah 31:4: "Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,"
Jeremiah 31:4: "Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,"
Jeremiah 31:28: "so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 31:38: "saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD of Hananeel"
Jeremiah 32:31: "my fury the day that they built it even unto this day;"
Jeremiah 32:35: " And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom,"
Jeremiah 33:7: "and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first."
Jeremiah 35:7: "Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant"
Jeremiah 35:9: "Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field,"
Jeremiah 42:10: "ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant"
Jeremiah 45:4: "thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted"
Jeremiah 52:4: "Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about."
Lamentations 3:5: " He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Ezekiel 4:2: "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount"
Ezekiel 11:3: "Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we"
Ezekiel 13:10: "and there was no and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered"
Ezekiel 16:24: " That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every street."
Ezekiel 16:25: " Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty"
Ezekiel 16:31: " In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every"
Ezekiel 17:17: "for him in the war, mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:"
Ezekiel 21:22: "the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort."
Ezekiel 26:14: "of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more:"
Ezekiel 27:4: "Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty."
Ezekiel 27:5: " They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken"
Ezekiel 28:26: "And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell"
Ezekiel 36:10: "of it: and the cities and the wastes shall be built:"
