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 8:16 לִבְנ֣וֹת liv.Not · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

  2. 1 Kings 8:17 לִבְנ֣וֹת liv.Not · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  3. 1 Kings 8:18 לִבְנ֥וֹת liv.Not · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    But Jehovah said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart:

  4. 1 Kings 8:19 תִבְנֶ֖ה tiv.Neh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

  5. 1 Kings 8:19 יִבְנֶ֥ה yiv.Neh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

  6. 1 Kings 8:20 וָאֶבְנֶ֣ה va.'ev.Neh · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And Jehovah hath established his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  7. 1 Kings 8:27 בָּנִֽיתִי׃ ba.Ni.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

  8. 1 Kings 8:43 בָּנִֽיתִי׃ ba.Ni.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.

  9. 1 Kings 8:44 בָּנִ֥תִי ba.Ni.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto Jehovah toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name;

  10. 1 Kings 8:48 בָּנִ֥יתִי ba.ni.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

  11. 1 Kings 9:1 לִבְנ֥וֹת liv.Not · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

  12. 1 Kings 9:3 בָּנִ֔תָה ba.Ni.tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And Jehovah said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

  13. 1 Kings 9:10 בָּנָ֥ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house

  14. 1 Kings 9:15 לִבְנוֹת֩ liv.nOt · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  15. 1 Kings 9:17 וַיִּ֤בֶן vai.Yi.ven · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

  16. 1 Kings 9:19 לִבְנ֤וֹת liv.Not · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

  17. 1 Kings 9:24 בָּֽנָה־ ba.nah- · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

  18. 1 Kings 9:24 בָּנָ֥ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

  19. 1 Kings 9:25 בָּנָ֣ה ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, upon the altar that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.

  20. 1 Kings 10:4 בָּנָֽה׃ ba.Nah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

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