בִּנְיָן
building
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Every verse where H1147 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Ezra 1 verse
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.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ezra 5:4. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1147 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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).
- King James Version: Building 1×
- American Standard Version: Building 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Building 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are building 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1147 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1147 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1147 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1147 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- 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
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 בנין (binyân) (H1146) — building.
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse 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
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