בִּנְיָן
building
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1146 appears — 6 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Ezekiel 6 verses
- Ezekiel 40:5 הַ/בִּנְיָן֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
- Ezekiel 41:12 וְ/הַ/בִּנְיָ֡ן הַ/בִּנְיָ֛ן conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:15 הַ֠/בִּנְיָן ptcl def.art + n c ms He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
- Ezekiel 42:1 הַ/בִּנְיָ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.
- Ezekiel 42:5 בִּנְיָֽן n c ms Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
- Ezekiel 42:10 הַ/בִּנְיָ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בנין — transliterated binyân — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “building.” Its uses cluster heavily in Ezekiel (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 6 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Ezekiel 40:5, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come בנה, אבן and בית. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1146 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 6 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 100%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Building 5×
- American Standard Version†: Building 6×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Building 4×, The 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Building 4×, Wall 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1146 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H1146 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1146 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1146 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
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 3 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.
בנין I structure, building Ez 41
בנין II structure (loan-word = ܒܶܢܝܳܢ according to LagBN 205) applied
- a. to enclosing wall of Ezekiel’s temple Ez 40:5; e.g. Ezekiel 40:5
- b. to rear-building of same 41:12(×2), 15, but read prob. בִּנְיָה q.v.; so Sm Co; e.g. Ezekiel 41:12
- c. appar. to whole temple 42:1, 10 (Co reads הבית); cf. v 5 (del. Co);—Sm refers v 1 to enclosing wall, vid. a. e.g. Ezekiel 42:1
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
I. n.f. structure, building Ez 41:13, cf. also בִּנְיָן.
I. n.m. structure (loan-word = ܒܶܢܝܳܢ according to LagBN 205) applied
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בנה (bânâh) (H1129) — to build.
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.
בִּנְיָן
- 1. building, structure; erection. Succ. 51ᵇ מי שלא ראה בה"מ בבִנְיָנוֹ whoever has not seen the Temple in its finished state, expl. ibid. בִּנְיַן הורדוס the Herodian Temple (Ms. M. … ראה בנין בה"מ; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).—אַמַּת הב׳, v. אַמָּה.—Sabb. 102ᵇ דרך ב׳ בכן such kind of labor belongs to builders’ work. Ib. דמי לב׳ it looks like builders’ work; a. fr.—בִּנְיַן אב standard rule, v. אָב; v. Ḥull. 78ᵇ, B. Kam. 77ᵇ זה בנה אב this (Ex. XII, 5) forms the rule, wherever שה is used &c. (v. Tosaf. a. l.).—Sabb. 114ᵃ בִּנְיָנוֹ של עולם the preservation of the (mental and moral) world. e.g. Exodus 12:5
- 2. human frame, skeleton. Ohol. II, 1 רוב בניינו the greater portion of a corpse as to size of limbs, contrad. to רוב מניינו the larger as to the number of joints and limbs.
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 6 distinct written forms H1146 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/בִּנְיָ֖ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 42:1 | 2 |
| בִּנְיָֽן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 42:5 | 1 |
| הַ/בִּנְיָ֛ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:12 | 1 |
| הַ/בִּנְיָן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:5 | 1 |
| הַ֠/בִּנְיָן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:15 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/בִּנְיָ֡ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1146, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אבן ʼeben H68 stone
- בית bayith H1004 house
- בן bên H1121 son
- בנא bᵉnâʼ H1124 to build
- בניה binyâh H1140 building
- בת bath H1323 daughter
- מבנה mibneh H4011 building
- תבן teben H8401 stubble
- תבנית tabnîyth H8403 pattern
Derived from this word
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 21 — 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 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
