בָּנָה
ba.nah
1. to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue
a. (Qal)
1. to build, rebuild
2. to build a house (ie, establish a family)
b. (Niphal)
1. to be built
2. to be rebuilt
3. established (of restored exiles) (fig.)
4. established (made permanent)
5. 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)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 344 verses
- Joshua 22:29 לִבְנ֣וֹת
Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which stands before His tabernacle.”
- Joshua 24:13 בְנִיתֶ֔ם
So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
- Judges 1:26 וַיִּ֣בֶן
And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- Judges 6:24 וַיִּבֶן֩
So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 6:26 וּבָנִ֨יתָ
Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
- Judges 6:28 הַבָּנֽוּי׃
When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.
- Judges 18:28 וַיִּבְנ֥וּ
There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.
- Judges 21:4 וַיִּבְנוּ־
The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
- Judges 21:23 וַיִּבְנוּ֙
The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
- Ruth 4:11 בָּנ֤וּ
“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
- 1 Samuel 2:35 וּבָנִ֤יתִי
Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.
- 1 Samuel 7:17 וַיִּֽבֶן־
Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 14:35 וַיִּ֧בֶןלִבְנ֥וֹת
Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.
- 2 Samuel 5:9 וַיִּ֤בֶן
So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
- 2 Samuel 5:11 וַיִּבְנֽוּ־
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.
- 2 Samuel 7:5 תִּבְנֶה־
“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?
- 2 Samuel 7:7 בְנִיתֶ֥ם
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
- 2 Samuel 7:13 יִבְנֶה־
He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 2 Samuel 7:27 אֶבְנֶה־
For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- 2 Samuel 24:21 לִבְנ֤וֹת
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
- 2 Samuel 24:25 וַיִּבֶן֩
And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
- 1 Kings 2:36 בְּֽנֵה־
Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.
- 1 Kings 3:1 לִבְנ֤וֹת
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 3:2 נִבְנָ֥ה
The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
- 1 Kings 5:3 לִבְנ֣וֹת
“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
- 1 Kings 5:5 לִבְנ֣וֹתיִבְנֶ֥ה
So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
- 1 Kings 5:18 בֹּנֵ֧יוּבֹנֵ֥ילִבְנ֥וֹת
So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
- 1 Kings 6:1 וַיִּ֥בֶן
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 6:2 בָּנָ֜ה
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:5 וַיִּבֶן֩
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- 1 Kings 6:7 בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹנִבְנָ֑הבְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
- 1 Kings 6:9 וַיִּ֥בֶן
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:10 וַיִּ֤בֶן
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:12 בֹנֶ֗ה
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
- 1 Kings 6:14 וַיִּ֧בֶן
So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
- 1 Kings 6:15 וַיִּבֶן֩
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- 1 Kings 6:16 וַיִּבֶן֩וַיִּ֤בֶן
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Kings 6:36 וַיִּ֙בֶן֙
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 6:38 וַיִּבְנֵ֖הוּ
In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
- 1 Kings 7:1 בָּנָ֣ה
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
- 1 Kings 7:2 וַיִּ֜בֶן
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 8:13 בָּנֹ֥הבָנִ֛יתִי
I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
- 1 Kings 8:16 לִבְנ֣וֹת
‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 1 Kings 8:17 לִבְנ֣וֹת
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:18 לִבְנ֥וֹת
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
- 1 Kings 8:19 תִבְנֶ֖היִבְנֶ֥ה
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
- 1 Kings 8:20 וָאֶבְנֶ֣ה
Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:27 בָּנִֽיתִי׃
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- 1 Kings 8:43 בָּנִֽיתִי׃
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
- 1 Kings 8:44 בָּנִ֥תִי
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,