בָּנָה
to build
also: rebuild, establish, cause to continue fuller range ↓
H1129
Strong's Hebrew
bânâh
Transliteration
/baw-naw'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
377
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue
- (Qal)
- to build, rebuild
- to build a house (i.e., establish a family)
- (Niphal)
- to be built
- to be rebuilt
- established (of restored exiles) (figuratively)
- established (made permanent)
- to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘sq.’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be built’
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 52 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 63 times (17%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 60 times (16%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 43 times (11%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 20 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 16 times (4%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 15 times (4%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 13 times (3%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 13 times (3%)
+44 more forms (134 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 377 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 1 of 2 — showing verses 1–200 of 345 distinct verses where H1129 appears, across 33 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 16 verses
- Genesis 2:22 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- Genesis 4:17 בֹּ֣נֶה Qal ptcp.act ms Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 8:20 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Genesis 10:11 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- Genesis 11:4 נִבְנֶה Qal coh 1cp They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
- Genesis 11:5 בָּנ֖וּ Qal pf 3cp Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:8 לִ/בְנֹ֥ת prep + Qal inf.cs So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- Genesis 12:7 וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 12:8 וַ/יִּֽבֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 13:18 וַ/יִּֽבֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
- Genesis 16:2 אִבָּנֶ֖ה Niphal impf 1cs Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 22:9 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
- Genesis 26:25 וַ/יִּ֧בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
- Genesis 30:3 וְ/אִבָּנֶ֥ה conj + Niphal impf 1cs She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
- Genesis 33:17 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 35:7 וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 1:11 וַ/יִּ֜בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 17:15 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.
- Exodus 20:25 תִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 2ms If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
- Exodus 24:4 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 32:5 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."
Numbers 10 verses
- Numbers 13:22 נִבְנְתָ֔ה Niphal pf 3fs They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 21:27 תִּבָּנֶ֥ה Niphal juss 3fs Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come you to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
- Numbers 23:1 בְּנֵה Qal impv 2ms Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
- Numbers 23:14 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
- Numbers 23:29 בְּנֵה Qal impv 2ms Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
- Numbers 32:16 נִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 1cp They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
- Numbers 32:24 בְּנֽוּ Qal impv 2mp Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
- Numbers 32:34 וַ/יִּבְנ֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
- Numbers 32:37 בָּנ֔וּ Qal pf 3cp The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
- Numbers 32:38 בָּנֽוּ Qal pf 3cp and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Deuteronomy 10 verses
- Deuteronomy 6:10 בָנִֽיתָ Qal pf 2ms It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
- Deuteronomy 8:12 תִּבְנֶ֖ה Qal impf 2ms lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
- Deuteronomy 13:16 תִבָּנֶ֖ה Niphal impf 3fs You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
- Deuteronomy 20:5 בָּנָ֤ה Qal pf 3ms The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- Deuteronomy 20:20 וּ/בָנִ֣יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 22:8 תִבְנֶה֙ Qal impf 2ms When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
- Deuteronomy 25:9 יִבְנֶ֖ה Qal impf 3ms then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.
- Deuteronomy 27:5 וּ/בָנִ֤יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms There shall you build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them.
- Deuteronomy 27:6 תִּבְנֶ֔ה Qal impf 2ms You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
- Deuteronomy 28:30 תִּבְנֶ֖ה Qal impf 2ms You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
Joshua 11 verses
- Joshua 6:26 וּ/בָנָ֞ה conj + Qal wpf 3ms Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
- Joshua 8:30 יִבְנֶ֤ה Qal impf 3ms Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
- Joshua 19:50 וַ/יִּבְנֶ֥ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived therein.
- Joshua 22:10 וַ/יִּבְנ֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look on.
- Joshua 22:11 בָנ֣וּ Qal pf 3cp The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:16 בִּ/בְנֽוֹתְ/כֶ֤ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
- Joshua 22:19 בִּ/בְנֹֽתְ/כֶ֤ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.
- Joshua 22:23 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Yahweh himself require it;
- Joshua 22:26 לִ/בְנ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
- Joshua 22:29 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent.
- Joshua 24:13 בְנִיתֶ֔ם Qal pf 2mp I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat.
Judges 7 verses
- Judges 1:26 וַ/יִּ֣בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day.
- Judges 6:24 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 6:26 וּ/בָנִ֨יתָ conj + Qal wpf 2ms and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.
- Judges 6:28 הַ/בָּנֽוּי ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.pass ms When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
- Judges 18:28 וַ/יִּבְנ֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.
- Judges 21:4 וַ/יִּבְנוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings.
- Judges 21:23 וַ/יִּבְנוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:35 וּ/בָנִ֤יתִי conj + Qal wpf 1cs I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
- 1 Samuel 7:17 וַ/יִּֽבֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 14:35 וַ/יִּ֧בֶן לִ/בְנ֥וֹת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.
2 Samuel 8 verses
- 2 Samuel 5:9 וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built round about from Millo and inward.
- 2 Samuel 5:11 וַ/יִּבְנֽוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
- 2 Samuel 7:5 תִּבְנֶה Qal impf 2ms Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?
- 2 Samuel 7:7 בְנִיתֶ֥ם Qal pf 2mp In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
- 2 Samuel 7:13 יִבְנֶה Qal impf 3ms He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 2 Samuel 7:27 אֶבְנֶה Qal impf 1cs For you, Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
- 2 Samuel 24:21 לִ/בְנ֤וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
- 2 Samuel 24:25 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
1 Kings 53 verses
- 1 Kings 2:36 בְּֽנֵה Qal impv 2ms The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go forth from there any where.
- 1 Kings 3:1 לִ/בְנ֤וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- 1 Kings 3:2 נִבְנָ֥ה Niphal pf 3ms Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
- 1 Kings 5:3 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.
- 1 Kings 5:5 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת יִבְנֶ֥ה prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impf 3ms Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your room, he shall build the house for my name.
- 1 Kings 5:18 בֹּנֵ֧י וּ/בֹנֵ֥י לִ/בְנ֥וֹת Qal ptcp.act mp cs conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs prep + Qal inf.cs Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
- 1 Kings 6:1 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 6:2 בָּנָ֜ה Qal pf 3ms The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:5 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
- 1 Kings 6:7 בְּ/הִבָּ֣נֹת֔/וֹ נִבְנָ֑ה בְּ/הִבָּנֹתֽ/וֹ prep + Niphal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Niphal pf 3ms prep + Niphal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
- 1 Kings 6:9 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:10 וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:12 בֹנֶ֗ה Qal ptcp.act ms Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
- 1 Kings 6:14 וַ/יִּ֧בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
- 1 Kings 6:15 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
- 1 Kings 6:16 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
- 1 Kings 6:36 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 6:38 וַ/יִּבְנֵ֖/הוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
- 1 Kings 7:1 בָּנָ֣ה Qal pf 3ms Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
- 1 Kings 7:2 וַ/יִּ֜בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
- 1 Kings 8:13 בָּנֹ֥ה בָנִ֛יתִי Qal inf.abs Qal pf 1cs I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.
- 1 Kings 8:16 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs 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.
- 1 Kings 8:17 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:18 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
- 1 Kings 8:19 תִבְנֶ֖ה יִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 2ms Qal impf 3ms nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
- 1 Kings 8:20 וָ/אֶבְנֶ֣ה conj + Qal wimpf 1cs Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:27 בָּנִֽיתִי Qal pf 1cs But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- 1 Kings 8:43 בָּנִֽיתִי Qal pf 1cs hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.
- 1 Kings 8:44 בָּנִ֥תִי Qal pf 1cs If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
- 1 Kings 8:48 בנית בָּנִ֥יתִי Qal pf 2ms Qal pf 1cs if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
- 1 Kings 9:1 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
- 1 Kings 9:3 בָּנִ֔תָה Qal pf 2ms Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
- 1 Kings 9:10 בָּנָ֥ה Qal pf 3ms It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
- 1 Kings 9:15 לִ/בְנוֹת֩ prep + Qal inf.cs This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 9:17 וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
- 1 Kings 9:19 לִ/בְנ֤וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs 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.
- 1 Kings 9:24 בָּֽנָה בָּנָ֥ה Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
- 1 Kings 9:25 בָּנָ֣ה Qal pf 3ms Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
- 1 Kings 10:4 בָּנָֽה Qal pf 3ms When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
- 1 Kings 11:7 יִבְנֶ֨ה Qal impf 3ms Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kings 11:27 בָּנָ֣ה Qal pf 3ms This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:38 וּ/בָנִ֨יתִי בָּנִ֣יתִי conj + Qal wpf 1cs Qal pf 1cs It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
- 1 Kings 12:25 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן וַ/יִּ֖בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
- 1 Kings 14:23 וַ/יִּבְנ֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
- 1 Kings 15:17 וַ/יִּ֖בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:21 מִ/בְּנ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 15:22 בָּנָ֖ה וַ/יִּ֤בֶן Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
- 1 Kings 15:23 בָּנָ֔ה Qal pf 3ms Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
- 1 Kings 16:24 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן֙ בָּנָ֔ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms 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.
- 1 Kings 16:32 בָּנָ֖ה Qal pf 3ms He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
- 1 Kings 16:34 בָּנָ֥ה Qal pf 3ms In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation of it with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates of it with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
- 1 Kings 18:32 וַ/יִּבְנֶ֧ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
- 1 Kings 22:39 בָּנָ֔ה בָּנָ֑ה Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms 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, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 12 verses
- 2 Kings 12:11 וְ/לַ/בֹּנִ֔ים conj + prep det + Qal ptcp.act mp They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,
- 2 Kings 14:22 בָּנָ֣ה Qal pf 3ms He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
- 2 Kings 15:35 בָּנָ֛ה Qal pf 3ms However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 16:11 וַ/יִּ֛בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
- 2 Kings 16:18 בָּנ֣וּ Qal pf 3cp The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 17:9 וַ/יִּבְנ֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
- 2 Kings 21:3 וַ/יִּ֨בֶן֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Kings 21:4 וּ/בָנָ֥ה conj + Qal wpf 3ms He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
- 2 Kings 21:5 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 22:6 וְ/לַ/בֹּנִ֖ים conj + prep det + Qal ptcp.act mp to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- 2 Kings 23:13 בָּ֠נָה Qal pf 3ms The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
- 2 Kings 25:1 וַ/יִּבְנ֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
1 Chronicles 27 verses
- 1 Chronicles 6:10 בָּנָ֥ה Qal pf 3ms and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem),
- 1 Chronicles 6:32 בְּנ֧וֹת Qal inf.cs They ministered with song before the tent of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order.
- 1 Chronicles 7:24 וַ/תִּ֧בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3fs His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
- 1 Chronicles 8:12 בָּנָ֣ה Qal pf 3ms The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it;
- 1 Chronicles 11:8 וַ/יִּ֤בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
- 1 Chronicles 14:1 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
- 1 Chronicles 17:4 תִּבְנֶה Qal impf 2ms Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in:
- 1 Chronicles 17:6 בְנִיתֶ֥ם Qal pf 2mp In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
- 1 Chronicles 17:10 יִֽבְנֶה Qal impf 3ms and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
- 1 Chronicles 17:12 יִבְנֶה Qal impf 3ms He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:25 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you.
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 וְ/אֶבְנֶה conj + Qal coh 1cs Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
- 1 Chronicles 21:26 וַ/יִּבֶן֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 לִ/בְנ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 22:6 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 22:7 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
- 1 Chronicles 22:8 תִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 2ms But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 יִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 3ms he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
- 1 Chronicles 22:11 וּ/בָנִ֨יתָ֙ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
- 1 Chronicles 22:19 וּ/בְנוּ֙ הַ/נִּבְנֶ֥ה conj + Qal impv 2mp ptcl def.art + Niphal ptcp.pass ms Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 28:2 לִ/בְנוֹת֩ לִ/בְנֽוֹת prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 תִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 2ms But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.
- 1 Chronicles 28:6 יִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 3ms He said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
- 1 Chronicles 28:10 לִ/בְנֽוֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
- 1 Chronicles 29:16 לִ/בְנֽוֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes of your hand, and is all your own.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 וְ/לִ/בְנ֖וֹת conj + prep + Qal inf.cs and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.
2 Chronicles 54 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:1 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 לִ/בְנֽוֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 בֽוֹנֶה Qal ptcp.act ms Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 2:5 בוֹנֶ֖ה Qal ptcp.act ms The house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.
- 2 Chronicles 2:6 לִ/בְנֽוֹת אֶבְנֶה prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impf 1cs But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
- 2 Chronicles 2:9 בוֹנֶ֖ה Qal ptcp.act ms even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 יִבְנֶה Qal impf 3ms Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 לִ/בְנ֤וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 2 Chronicles 3:2 לִ/בְנ֞וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 לִ/בְנ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 6:2 בָּנִ֥יתִי Qal pf 1cs But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.
- 2 Chronicles 6:5 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:
- 2 Chronicles 6:7 לִ/בְנ֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:8 לִ/בְנ֥וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
- 2 Chronicles 6:9 תִבְנֶ֖ה יִבְנֶ֥ה Qal impf 2ms Qal impf 3ms nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 וָ/אֶבְנֶ֣ה conj + Qal wimpf 1cs Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:18 בָּנִֽיתִי Qal pf 1cs But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
- 2 Chronicles 6:33 בָּנִֽיתִי Qal pf 1cs then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 בָּנִ֥יתִי Qal pf 1cs If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 בָּנִ֥יתִי Qal pf 1cs if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
- 2 Chronicles 8:1 בָּנָ֧ה Qal pf 3ms It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,
- 2 Chronicles 8:2 בָּנָ֥ה Qal pf 3ms that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
- 2 Chronicles 8:4 וַ/יִּ֥בֶן בָּנָ֖ה conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 וַ/יִּ֜בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 לִ/בְנ֤וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 בָּֽנָה Qal pf 3ms Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Yahweh has come.
- 2 Chronicles 8:12 בָּנָ֖ה Qal pf 3ms Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,
- 2 Chronicles 9:3 בָּנָֽה Qal pf 3ms When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
- 2 Chronicles 11:5 וַ/יִּ֧בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:6 וַ/יִּ֧בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 וַ/יִּ֛בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 נִבְנֶ֣ה וַ/יִּבְנ֖וּ Qal impf 1cp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 16:1 וַ/יִּ֖בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 16:5 מִ/בְּנ֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
- 2 Chronicles 16:6 בָּנָ֖ה וַ/יִּ֣בֶן Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
- 2 Chronicles 17:12 וַ/יִּ֧בֶן conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
- 2 Chronicles 20:8 וַ/יִּבְנ֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,
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At its core, בנה (bânâh) means “to build.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:22. It appears 345 verses across 33 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 2 stems (Qal, Niphal, and more). It clusters with אבן, בית and בן under a shared root. Dig into 345-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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Strong's · 1890
build
Modern gloss
to build
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Strong's H1129 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
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- 345
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 345 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #133
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 133 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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- 2 Chronicles 54 verses 16%
- 1 Kings 53 verses 15%
- 1 Chronicles 27 verses 8%
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 345 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 164 verses · 48%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 140 verses · 41%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 41 verses · 12%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Build 58×, He built 41×, Built 39×
- American Standard Version: Build 51×, He built 45×, Built 35×
- Berean Standard Bible: Build 54×, Built 46×, He built 23×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Build 69×, He built 62×, Built 48×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1129 across 376 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 91 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1129 across 376 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 99 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1129 across 366 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 77 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 9 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1129 across 414 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 57 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
19 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 19 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. ב׳ Dt 20:5 +, בָּֽנְתָה Pr 9:1; 14:1, בָּנִיתָ Dt 6:10, בָּנִתָה 1 K 9:3; וּבָנִ֫יתָ consec. Dt 20:20 +; בָּנִיתְ Ez 16:25; בָּנִיתִי 1 K 8:13 +; pl. בָּנוּ Gn 11:5 +, etc.; Impf. יִבְנֶה Dt 25:9 +; juss. וְיִבֶן Ezr 1:3 וַיִּבְנֶה Jos 19:50 + 2 times וַיִּ֫בֶן Gn 2:22 +; sf. יִבְנֵ֫הוּ Jb 20:19; 3 fs. וַתִּ֫בֶן 1 Ch 7:24 Zc 9:3; אֶבְנֶה 2 S 7:27 +; pl. יִבְנוּ Is 65:22 +, etc.; Imv. בְּנֵה Nu 23:1 +; pl. בְּנוּ Nu 32:24 +; Inf. abs. בָּנֹה 1 K 8:13; cstr. בְּנוֹת 1 Ch 6:17 +, etc.; Pt. act. בֹּנֶה (בּוֹנֶה) Gn 4:17 +; cstr. בֹּנֵה ψ 147:2; pl. בּוֹנִים (בֹּנִים) Ezr 4:1 +; cstr. בֹּנֵי 1 K 5:32(×2), etc.; pass. בָּנוּי Ct 4:4 Ju 6:28; f. בְּנוּיָה ψ 122:3; pl. בְּנוּיִם Ne 7:4;—build, e.g. Deuteronomy 20:5
- a. c. acc. (α) of city (Hex only JE) Gn 4:17; 10:11; 11:4, 5 (+ tower) v 8 (all J & his sources); Ex 1:11 Nu 32:24 Jos 24:13 (all E) Ju 1:26; 18:28 + 22 times K Ch + Je 32:31 ψ 122:3 (pt. pass.) cf. Hb 2:12; of village (חָצֵר) Ne 12:29; v. also sub rebuild, i. infr.; (β) house Gn 33:17 (J), elsewhere in Hex only Dt 6:10; 8:12; 20:20; 28:30; also 2 S 5:11 1 K 22:39 1 Ch 14:1 2 Ch 2:2 Pr 24:27 Am 5:11 Zp 1:13 Is 65:21 Je 35:7, 9 cf. Zc 5:11; as sign of security Ez 28:26 cf. 11:3; of luxury Ec 2:4 cf. Je 22:14; of permanent residence 1 K 2:36 Je 29:5, 28; especially of temple 1 K 3:1; 5:32; 6:2 + often S K Chr; fig. of wisdom’s house Pr 9:1; especially build temple ליהוה etc. 2 S 7:5, 7 1 K 6:1 (= began to build) + 13 times Chr + Is 66:1; לְשֵׁם י׳ etc. 2 S 7:13 1 K 5:17 + 8 times K, 13 times Ch; לְךָ לְשִׁמְךָ 2 Ch 20:8; לִהְיוֹת שְׁמִי שָׁם 1 K 8:16 2 Ch 6:5; לָשׂוּם שְׁמִי שָׁם 1 K 9:3; obj. chambers, or stories 1 K 6:5, 10, court 6:36 Ho 8:14 perhaps of idolt-temples; cf. 1 K 16:32; ψ 78:69 of Yahweh’s building his sanctuary, 147:2 Jerusalem, ψ 127:1 a house; also Am 9:6 his chambers in the heavens; of Sol.’s palace 1 K 7:1, 2; 9:1, 10 +; (γ) of a fortress 2 Ch 17:12 27:4 cf. of Tyre Zc 9:3 (מָצוֹר); (δ) of wall 1 K 3:1 Is 60:10 Ez 13:10 2 Ch 33:14 (cf. 27:3) Ne 4:4; 6:1 +; (ε) gate 2 K 15:35 = 2 Ch 27:3; (ζ) tower Is 5:2 2 Ch 26:9, 10; 27:4 cf. fig. Ct 8:9 & pt. pass. Ct 4:4 (in sim.); † (η) siege-works against (עַל־) a city Dt 20:20 (מָצוֹר), Ec 9:14 (מְצוֹרִים), 2 K 25:1 = Je 52:4 Ez 4:2 (all דָּיֵק), & so (without עַל־) Ez 17:17; 21:27; cf. בנה עָלַי, abs. La 3:5 (in fig.); (θ) altar Gn 22:9; 35:7 Ex 17:15; 20:25; 24:4 Nu 23:1, 14, 29 (all E), Gn 26:25 Ex 32:5 (both J), Jos 22:11 + 6 times Jos 22 (all P) Ju 6:28 (pt. pass.) 21:4 + 6 times K Ch; often sq. ליהוה etc. Gn 8:20; 12:7, 8; 13:18 (all J), Dt 27:5, 6 Jos 8:30 (E) Ju 6:24, 26 + 8 times S K Ch; †(ι) high places (בָּמָה) 1 K 11:7; 14:23 2 K 17:9; 21:3; 23:13 2 Ch 33:3, 19 Je 7:31; 19:5; 32:35; cf. גַּב Ez 16:24, 31 (both ‖ רָמָה) & רָמָה v 25; †(κ) צִיּוּן Ez 39:15; also †(λ) גִּדְרֹת צֹאן Nu 32:16 (E); †(μ) מיּ֯סַךְ הַשַּׁבָּת 2 K 16:18. e.g. Genesis 4:17
- b. c. acc. of material Ex 20:25 (E) 1 K 6:36; 18:32; 15:22 = 2 Ch 16:6 Ez 27:5; c. בְּ of material 1 K 6:15, 16; 15:17 2 Ch 16:6; cf. e.g. Exodus 20:22
- c. וַיִּבֶן אֶת־הַצֵּלָע לְאִשָּׁה Gn 2:22 and he (Yahweh) fashioned the rib into a woman. e.g. Genesis 2:22
- d. abs. 2 S 5:9 1 K 6:16 Is 9:9 Je 1:10; 18:9; 22:13; 31:28 Is 65:22 + 12 times Chr + Mal 1:4 Ec 3:3 (opp. פרץ); also e.g. 2 Samuel 5:9
- e. Pt. act. = builder 1 K 5:32(×2) + 6 times Chr + Ez 27:4 ψ 118:22; 127:1. e.g. 1 Kings 5:32
- f. cf. indef. obj. 1 K 9:19 = 2 Ch 8:6. e.g. 1 Kings 9:19
- g. וַיִּבֶן אֶת־הָהָר = and he built on the hill 1 K 16:24. e.g. 1 Kings 16:24
- h. sq. בְּ build at Zc 6:15 Ne 4:11 (cf. בְּ i 2 b, p. 88). e.g. Zechariah 6:15
- i. = rebuild Jos 6:26 1 K 16:34 Am 9:14 Is 45:13 ψ 69:36 Ne 2:5 Dn 9:25 all of city; cf. phrase בנה חָרְבוֹת עוֹלָם Is 58:12; 61:4 & Ez 36:36 Mal 1:4 Jb 3:14; of walls Mi 7:11 2 Ch 32:5 Ne 2:17; 3:33, 35, 38; 6:6 ψ 51:20 (act. of י׳); of gate Ne 3:1, 13, 14, 15; temple Zc 6:12, 13 Ezr 1:3; alter 2 Ch 33:16 (Qr וַיִּבֶן so Bö ויכן, from כון, so Öt), Ezr 3:2; high places 2 K 21:3 = 2 Ch 33:3; in some of these apparently an idea of merely repairing; so, sometimes with added notion of enlarging etc., city Nu 32:34, 37, 38 (E) Jos 19:50 (P) Ju 21:23 2 K 14:22 = 2 Ch 26:2, 1 Ch 11:8 2 Ch 8:2; 11:6 cf. Mi 3:10; Millo 1 K 9:24; 11:27; cf. house Jb 20:19. e.g. Joshua 6:26
- 2. fig.
- a. build a house (בית) = perpetuate and establish a family; subj. Leah & Rachel Ru 4:11; subj. a brother Dt 25:9; subj. י׳ (promise to David) 1 S 2:35 2 S 7:27 1 K 11:38 1 Ch 17:10 and 17:25; (to Solomon) 1 K 11:38; cf. further סֻכַּת דָּוִד Am 9:11 (rebuild, restore); = cause a household to flourish Pr 14:1 cf. opp. 27:18; also of establishing David’s throne ψ 89:5. e.g. Ruth 4:11
- b. build up Israel (after exile) subj. י׳ Je 24:6; 31:4; 33:7; 42:10 cf. 45:4 & ψ 28:5; obj. Zion ψ 102:17. e.g. Jeremiah 24:6
Niphal
- Pf. נִבְנָה 1 K 3:2; 6:7, נִבְנְתָה Nu 13:22 Ne 7:1, וְנִבְנְתָה consec. Je 30:18 + 2 times; 2 fs. וְנִבְנֵית consec. Je 31:4; 3 pl. נִבְנוּ Mal 3:15; וְנִבְנוּ consec. Je 12:16 Ez 36:33; Impf. יִבָּנֶה Jb 12:14 + 4 times; 3 fs. תִּבָּנֶה Nu 21:27 + 3 times; 2 ms. תִּבָּנֶה Jb 22:23, אִבָּנֶה Gn 16:2, וְאִבָּנֶה Gn 30:3; 3 fpl. תִּבָּנֶינָה Ez 36:10; 2 fpl. תִּבָּנֶינָה Is 44:26; Inf. לְהִבָּנוֹת Hg 1:2 Zc 8:9, בְּהִבָּנֹתוֹ 1 K 6:7(×2); Pt. נִבְנֶה 1 Ch 22:19;— e.g. 1 Kings 3:2
- 1.
- a. be built, (lit.) of city Nu 13:22; of temple 1 K 3:2 (לְשֵׁם י׳) 1 K 6:7(×3) (c. acc. mater.); Pt. = to be built (gerundive) 1 Ch 22:19. e.g. Numbers 13:22
- b. be rebuilt: of city of Sihon Nu 21:27 cf. Is 25:2; 44:26, of wall of Jerusalem Ne 7:1, of Jerusalem Je 30:18; 31:4, 38 Is 44:28 cf. Dn 9:25 תָּשׁוּב וְנִבְנְתָה, & Ez 26:14 (c. עוֹד), of ruinous places (הֶחֳרָבוֹת) Ez 36:10, 33, of a devoted city Dt 13:17 (c. עוֹד), of temple Hg 1:2 Zc 1:16; 8:9, indef. subj. Jb 12:14. e.g. Numbers 21:27
- 2.
- a. (fig.) of restored exiles, = established Je 12:16, of prosperous wicked Mal 3:15, of repentant offender Jb 22:23. e.g. Jeremiah 12:16
- b. established, made permanent, subj. חֶסֶד ψ 89:3 (c. עוֹלָם), subj. בַּיִת Pr 24:3 (by wisdom). e.g. Psalms 89:3
- c. of childless wife, by means of concubine אִבָּנֶה מִמֶּנָּה Gn 16:2; 30:3 I shall be built up, i.e. become the mother of a family, from or through her; cf. >Qal 2 a. e.g. Genesis 16:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. build (MI, Nab. Eut No. 1 בנה, Ph. בן, Arabic بَنَا Assyrian banû COTGloss. cf. BaZMG 1887, 640, Sab. בני CIS iv. 1, No. 56, Aramaic בְּנָא, ܒܢܳܐ Palm. בנא VogNo. 31)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בני
- [to combine,] to build. Sabb. XII, 1 הַבּוֹנֶה he who builds (on the Sabbath). Ib.] 102ᵇ משום בונה (isguilty) because it is one of the labors classified under ‘building’; a. fr.—Metaph. to educate, train. Ber. 64ᵃ (ref. to Is. LIV, 93) א"ת בָּנַיִךְ אלא בוֹנַיִּךְ read not banayikh (thy children), but bonayikh (thy builders, trainers); v. בַּנָּאִים.—Ex. R. s. 23 (play on b’noth, Cant. I, 5) בּוֹנוֹת וכ׳ the authorities directing the building of Jerusalem; v. Pi.—Ḥull. 78ᵇ זה בנה אב, v. אָב, a. בִּנְיָן. [Tosef. Par. VII (VI), 4 בְּנָאוֹ ed. Zuck., v. כָּנַן.] e.g. Isaiah 54:93
- 1. to be built up. Y. B. Bath. III, 14ᵇ, a. fr. לְהִיבָּנוֹת, לִיבָּנוֹת.
- 2. (denom. of בֵּן) to get children. Gen. R. s. 71.
- (denom. of בֵּן) to be adopted, naturalized. Pesik. R. s. 43 נִתְבַּנּוּ בישראל they became full Israelitish citizens.
- to lay out, plan a city, determine its limits. Ex. R. l. c. the Great Sanedrin held sessions ומְבַנָּים אותה (not אותם) and determined the limits of Jerusalem; v. Snh. I, 5.—Part. Pu. מְבוּנֶּה cultivated; built (of human stature), well-proportioned. Keth. 112ᵃ; Sot. 34ᵇ היתה מְבוּנָּה על וכ׳ it (Hebron, in spite of the rocky nature of its soil) was seven times better cultivated than Zoan (one measure of its land yielding as much as did seven measures of the soil of Zoan). Ib. 42ᵇ (play on benayim, I Sam. XVII, 4) מב׳ מכל מום his build was without blemish. e.g. 1 Samuel 17:4
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 204 distinct written forms H1129 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 144 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1129, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- אבן ʼeben H68 stone
- בית bayith H1004 house
- בן bên H1121 son
- בנא bᵉnâʼ H1124 to build
- בניה binyâh H1140 building
- בנין binyân H1146 building
- בת bath H1323 daughter
- מבנה mibneh H4011 building
- תבן teben H8401 stubble
- תבנית tabnîyth H8403 pattern
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בנוי Binnûwy H1131 Binnui
- בני Bânîy H1137 Bani
- בני Bunnîy H1138 Bunni
- בניה Bᵉnâyâh H1141 Benaiah
- יבנאל Yabnᵉʼêl H2995 Jabneel
- יבנה Yabneh H2996 Jabneh
- יבניה Yibnᵉyâh H2997 Ibneiah
- יבניה Yibnîyâh H2998 Ibnijah
- מבני Mᵉbunnay H4012 Mebunnai
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 20 — not the complete family. 9 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 306 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 345 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:22
- Exodus 1:11
- Numbers 13:22
- Deuteronomy 6:10
- Joshua 6:26
- Judges 1:26
- Ruth 4:11
- 1 Samuel 2:35
- 2 Samuel 5:9
- 1 Kings 2:36
- 2 Kings 12:11
- 1 Chronicles 6:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
