בָּנָה
ba.nah
“to build”
Definition
to build (literally and figuratively)
a primitive root;
- to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to build, rebuild 1a2) to build a house (ie, establish a family) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be built 1b2) to be rebuilt 1b3) established (of restored exiles) (fig.) 1b4) established (made permanent) 1b5) to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine) Aramaic equivalent: be.nah (*בְּנָה *"to build" H1124)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
בָּנָה appears 315 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He built up the city around it, from the supporting terraces to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
with kings and counselors of the earth,who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
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