בָּנָה

ba.nah · to build

Hebrew · Strong's H1129 · Verb · Sounds like: baw-naw' · 376 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively); (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בָּנָה 373 vb. build
Qal build
Niph.
1.
a. be built
b. be rebuilt
2.
a. (fig.) of restored exiles, = established
b. established, made permanent

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 16:24 וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ vai.Yi.ven · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria.

  2. 1 Kings 16:24 בָּנָ֔ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria.

  3. 1 Kings 16:32 בָּנָ֖ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

  4. 1 Kings 16:34 בָּנָ֥ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof with the loss of Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates thereof with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

  5. 1 Kings 18:32 וַיִּבְנֶ֧ה vai.yiv.Neh · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

  6. 1 Kings 22:39 בָּנָ֔ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

  7. 1 Kings 22:39 בָּנָ֑ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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