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

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.
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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).