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:
Ezekiel 36:33: "in the cities, and the wastes shall be built."
Ezekiel 36:36: "that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I"
Ezekiel 39:15: "when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign it, till the buriers"
Daniel 9:25: "the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem the Messiah the Prince"
Daniel 9:25: "and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
Hosea 8:14: "hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied"
Amos 5:11: "from him burdens ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell"
Amos 9:6: " It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth"
Amos 9:11: "the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:"
Amos 9:14: "the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, them; and they shall plant"
Micah 3:10: " They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity."
Micah 7:11: "In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed."
Habakkuk 2:12: "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!"
Zephaniah 1:13: "a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not them; and they shall plant"
Haggai 1:2: "the time that the LORD's house should be built."
Haggai 1:8: "to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,"
Zechariah 1:16: "to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line"
Zechariah 5:11: "And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set"
Zechariah 6:12: "is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:"
Zechariah 6:13: "Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory,"
Zechariah 6:15: "And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD"
Zechariah 8:9: "of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built."
Zechariah 9:3: "And Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire"
Malachi 1:4: "saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus the LORD"
Malachi 1:4: "the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border"
Malachi 3:15: "call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, God"
