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
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 לִבְנ֣וֹת
And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 22:6 לִבְנ֣וֹת
Then David called for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 22:7 לִבְנ֣וֹת
“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God,
- 1 Chronicles 22:8 תִבְנֶ֥ה
but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 יִבְנֶ֥ה
He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
- 1 Chronicles 22:11 וּבָנִ֙יתָ֙
Now, my son, may the LORD be with you, and may you succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as He said you would.
- 1 Chronicles 22:19 וּבְנוּ֙הַנִּבְנֶ֥ה
Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:2 לִבְנוֹת֩לִבְנֽוֹת׃
Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it,
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 תִבְנֶ֥ה
but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’
- 1 Chronicles 28:6 יִבְנֶ֥ה
And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
- 1 Chronicles 28:10 לִבְנֽוֹת־
Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:16 לִבְנֽוֹת־
O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 וְלִבְנ֖וֹת
And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:1 לִבְנ֥וֹת
Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 לִבְנֽוֹת־
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 בֽוֹנֶה־
Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- 2 Chronicles 2:5 בוֹנֶ֖ה
The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
- 2 Chronicles 2:6 לִבְנֽוֹת־אֶבְנֶה־
But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
- 2 Chronicles 2:9 בוֹנֶ֖ה
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 יִבְנֶה־
And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 לִבְנ֤וֹת
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 2 Chronicles 3:2 לִבְנ֞וֹת
Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 לִבְנ֖וֹת
The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
- 2 Chronicles 6:2 בָּנִ֥יתִי
and I have built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:5 לִבְנ֣וֹת
‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land 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, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:7 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.
- 2 Chronicles 6:8 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.
- 2 Chronicles 6:9 תִבְנֶ֖היִבְנֶ֥ה
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 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.
- 2 Chronicles 6:18 בָּנִֽיתִי׃
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- 2 Chronicles 6:33 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.
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 בָּנִ֥יתִי
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 בָּנִ֥יתִי
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
- 2 Chronicles 8:1 בָּנָ֧ה
Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,
- 2 Chronicles 8:2 בָּנָ֥ה
Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.
- 2 Chronicles 8:4 וַיִּ֥בֶןבָּנָ֖ה
He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 וַיִּ֜בֶן
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 לִבְנ֤וֹת
as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 בָּֽנָה־
Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
- 2 Chronicles 8:12 בָּנָ֖ה
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.
- 2 Chronicles 9:3 בָּנָֽה׃
When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
- 2 Chronicles 11:5 וַיִּ֧בֶן
Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:6 וַיִּ֧בֶן
He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 וַיִּ֛בֶן
Because the land was at peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. In those days no one made war with him, because the LORD had given him rest.
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 נִבְנֶ֣ה׀וַיִּבְנ֖וּ
So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 16:1 וַיִּ֖בֶן
In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 16:5 מִבְּנ֖וֹת
When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.
- 2 Chronicles 16:6 בָּנָ֖הוַיִּ֣בֶן
Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.
- 2 Chronicles 17:12 וַיִּ֧בֶן
Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah
- 2 Chronicles 20:8 וַיִּבְנ֨וּ
They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,