בָּנָהbânâh
build
Pronunciation: baw-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1129
Meanings
Qal: build (Deuteronomy 20:5; Proverbs 9:1; Proverbs 14:1)
1. (literal)
a. rebuild (Genesis 4:17; Genesis 10:11; Genesis 11:4)
c. and he, fashioned the rib into a woman (Genesis 2:22)
e. builder (1 Kings 5:32; Ezekiel 27:4; Psalms 118:22)
g. and he built, the hill (1 Kings 16:24)
h. build at (Zechariah 6:15; Nehemiah 4:11)
i. rebuild (Joshua 6:26; 1 Kings 16:34; Amos 9:14)
2. figurative
a. build a house (Ruth 4:11; Deuteronomy 25:9; 1 Samuel 2:35)
Niph`al
1.
a. be built (Numbers 13:22; 1 Kings 3:2; 1 Kings 6:7)
b. be rebuilt (Numbers 21:27; Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 44:26)
2.
a. established, (figurative) (Jeremiah 12:16; Malachi 3:15; Job 22:23)
b. established (Psalms 89:3; Proverbs 24:3)
c. of childless wife, by means of concubine (Genesis 16:2; Genesis 30:3)
Same root
- אֶבֶןʼeben · H68a stone
- בַּיִתbayith · H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בֵּןbên · H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- בְּנָאbᵉnâʼ · H1124to build
- בִּנּוּיBinnûwy · H1131Binnui, an Israelite
- בָּנִיBânîy · H1137Bani, the name of five Israelites
- בֻּנִּיBunnîy · H1138Bunni or Buni, an Israelite
- בִּנְיָהbinyâh · H1140a structure
Where it appears
Appears 376 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
- Genesis 4:17 Cain had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
- Genesis 10:11 From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
- Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
- Genesis 11:5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
See every passage
- Genesis 2:22, 4:17, 8:20, 10:11, 11:4, 11:5, 11:8, 12:7, 12:8, 13:18, 16:2, 22:9, 26:25, 30:3, 33:17, 35:7
- Exodus 1:11, 17:15, 20:25, 24:4, 32:5
- Numbers 13:22, 21:27, 23:1, 23:14, 23:29, 32:16, 32:24, 32:34, 32:37, 32:38
- Deuteronomy 6:10, 8:12, 13:16, 20:5, 20:20, 22:8, 25:9, 27:5, 27:6, 28:30
- Joshua 6:26, 8:30, 19:50, 22:10, 22:11, 22:16, 22:19, 22:23, 22:26, 22:29, 24:13
- Judges 1:26, 6:24, 6:26, 6:28, 18:28, 21:4, 21:23
- Ruth 4:11
- 1 Samuel 2:35, 7:17, 14:35
- 2 Samuel 5:9, 5:11, 7:5, 7:7, 7:13, 7:27, 24:21, 24:25
- 1 Kings 2:36, 3:1, 3:2, 5:3, 5:5, 5:18, 6:1, 6:2, 6:5, 6:7, 6:9, 6:10, 6:12, 6:14, 6:15, 6:16, 6:36, 6:38, 7:1, 7:2, 8:13, 8:16, 8:17, 8:18, 8:19, 8:20, 8:27, 8:43, 8:44, 8:48, 9:1, 9:3, 9:10, 9:15, 9:17, 9:19, 9:24, 9:25, 10:4, 11:7, 11:27, 11:38, 12:25, 14:23, 15:17, 15:21, 15:22, 15:23, 16:24, 16:32, 16:34, 18:32, 22:39
- 2 Kings 12:11, 14:22, 15:35, 16:11, 16:18, 17:9, 21:3, 21:4, 21:5, 22:6, 23:13, 25:1
- 1 Chronicles 6:10, 6:32, 7:24, 8:12, 11:8, 14:1, 17:4, 17:6, 17:10, 17:12, 17:25, 21:22, 21:26, 22:2, 22:5, 22:6, 22:7, 22:8, 22:10, 22:11, 22:19, 28:2, 28:3, 28:6, 28:10, 29:16, 29:19
- 2 Chronicles 2:1, 2:3, 2:4, 2:5, 2:6, 2:9, 2:12, 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 6:2, 6:5, 6:7, 6:8, 6:9, 6:10, 6:18, 6:33, 6:34, 6:38, 8:1, 8:2, 8:4, 8:5, 8:6, 8:11, 8:12, 9:3, 11:5, 11:6, 14:6, 14:7, 16:1, 16:5, 16:6, 17:12, 20:8, 26:2, 26:6, 26:9, 26:10, 27:3, 27:4, 32:5, 33:3, 33:4, 33:5, 33:14, 33:15, 33:16, 33:19, 34:11, 35:3, 36:23
- Ezra 1:2, 1:3, 1:5, 3:2, 3:10, 4:1, 4:2, 4:3, 4:4
- Nehemiah 2:5, 2:17, 2:18, 2:20, 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:13, 3:14, 3:15, 4:1, 4:3, 4:5, 4:6, 4:10, 4:17, 4:18, 6:1, 6:6, 7:1, 7:4, 12:29
- Job 3:14, 12:14, 20:19, 22:23, 27:18
- Psalms 28:5, 51:18, 69:35, 78:69, 89:2, 89:4, 102:16, 118:22, 122:3, 127:1, 147:2
- Proverbs 9:1, 14:1, 24:3, 24:27
- Ecclesiastes 2:4, 3:3, 9:14
- Song of Solomon 4:4, 8:9
- Isaiah 5:2, 9:10, 25:2, 44:26, 44:28, 45:13, 58:12, 60:10, 61:4, 65:21, 65:22, 66:1
- Jeremiah 1:10, 7:31, 12:16, 18:9, 19:5, 22:13, 22:14, 24:6, 29:5, 29:28, 30:18, 31:4, 31:28, 31:38, 32:31, 32:35, 33:7, 35:7, 35:9, 42:10, 45:4, 52:4
- Lamentations 3:5
- Ezekiel 4:2, 11:3, 13:10, 16:24, 16:25, 16:31, 17:17, 21:22, 26:14, 27:4, 27:5, 28:26, 36:10, 36:33, 36:36, 39:15
- Daniel 9:25
- Hosea 8:14
- Amos 5:11, 9:6, 9:11, 9:14
- Micah 3:10, 7:11
- Habakkuk 2:12
- Zephaniah 1:13
- Haggai 1:2, 1:8
- Zechariah 1:16, 5:11, 6:12, 6:13, 6:15, 8:9, 9:3
- Malachi 1:4, 3:15
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).