H1129: בָּנָה
bânâh · pronounced baw-naw' · “to build”
Definition
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV translates it as: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to build, rebuild
1a2) to build a house (ie, establish a family)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be built
1b2) to be rebuilt
1b3) established (of restored exiles) (fig.)
1b4) established (made permanent)
1b5) to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine)
Aramaic equivalent: be.nah (בְּנָה "to build" H1124)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1129 is translated
- he built ×84
- build ×54
- you will build ×17
- they built ×15
- he will build ×15
- i have built ×13
- he had built ×12
- it ×9
- builders ×7
- i will build ×6
- he rebuilt ×6
- they will build ×6
Bible verses with H1129 (bânâh)
Bânâh appears in 345 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 2:22
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
- Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
- Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
- Genesis 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
- Genesis 13:18
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
- Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
- Genesis 26:25
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
- Genesis 30:3
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
- Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- Exodus 1:11
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH–nissi:
- Exodus 20:25
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
- Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 32:5
And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.
- Numbers 13:22
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 21:27
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
- Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
- Numbers 23:14
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
All 345 references
- Numbers 23:29
- Numbers 32:16
- Numbers 32:24
- Numbers 32:34
- Numbers 32:37
- Numbers 32:38
- Deuteronomy 6:10
- Deuteronomy 8:12
- Deuteronomy 13:16
- Deuteronomy 20:5
- Deuteronomy 20:20
- Deuteronomy 22:8
- Deuteronomy 25:9
- Deuteronomy 27:5
- Deuteronomy 27:6
- Deuteronomy 28:30
- Joshua 6:26
- Joshua 8:30
- Joshua 19:50
- Joshua 22:10
- Joshua 22:11
- Joshua 22:16
- Joshua 22:19
- Joshua 22:23
- Joshua 22:26
- Joshua 22:29
- Joshua 24:13
- Judges 1:26
- Judges 6:24
- Judges 6:26
- Judges 6:28
- Judges 18:28
- Judges 21:4
- Judges 21:23
- Ruth 4:11
- 1 Samuel 2:35
- 1 Samuel 7:17
- 1 Samuel 14:35
- 2 Samuel 5:9
- 2 Samuel 5:11
- 2 Samuel 7:5
- 2 Samuel 7:7
- 2 Samuel 7:13
- 2 Samuel 7:27
- 2 Samuel 24:21
- 2 Samuel 24:25
- 1 Kings 2:36
- 1 Kings 3:1
- 1 Kings 3:2
- 1 Kings 5:3
- 1 Kings 5:5
- 1 Kings 5:18
- 1 Kings 6:1
- 1 Kings 6:2
- 1 Kings 6:5
- 1 Kings 6:7
- 1 Kings 6:9
- 1 Kings 6:10
- 1 Kings 6:12
- 1 Kings 6:14
- 1 Kings 6:15
- 1 Kings 6:16
- 1 Kings 6:36
- 1 Kings 6:38
- 1 Kings 7:1
- 1 Kings 7:2
- 1 Kings 8:13
- 1 Kings 8:16
- 1 Kings 8:17
- 1 Kings 8:18
- 1 Kings 8:19
- 1 Kings 8:20
- 1 Kings 8:27
- 1 Kings 8:43
- 1 Kings 8:44
- 1 Kings 8:48
- 1 Kings 9:1
- 1 Kings 9:3
- 1 Kings 9:10
- 1 Kings 9:15
- 1 Kings 9:17
- 1 Kings 9:19
- 1 Kings 9:24
- 1 Kings 9:25
- 1 Kings 10:4
- 1 Kings 11:7
- 1 Kings 11:27
- 1 Kings 11:38
- 1 Kings 12:25
- 1 Kings 14:23
- 1 Kings 15:17
- 1 Kings 15:21
- 1 Kings 15:22
- 1 Kings 15:23
- 1 Kings 16:24
- 1 Kings 16:32
- 1 Kings 16:34
- 1 Kings 18:32
- 1 Kings 22:39
- 2 Kings 12:11
- 2 Kings 14:22
- 2 Kings 15:35
- 2 Kings 16:11
- 2 Kings 16:18
- 2 Kings 17:9
- 2 Kings 21:3
- 2 Kings 21:4
- 2 Kings 21:5
- 2 Kings 22:6
- 2 Kings 23:13
- 2 Kings 25:1
- 1 Chronicles 6:10
- 1 Chronicles 6:32
- 1 Chronicles 7:24
- 1 Chronicles 8:12
- 1 Chronicles 11:8
- 1 Chronicles 14:1
- 1 Chronicles 17:4
- 1 Chronicles 17:6
- 1 Chronicles 17:10
- 1 Chronicles 17:12
- 1 Chronicles 17:25
- 1 Chronicles 21:22
- 1 Chronicles 21:26
- 1 Chronicles 22:2
- 1 Chronicles 22:5
- 1 Chronicles 22:6
- 1 Chronicles 22:7
- 1 Chronicles 22:8
- 1 Chronicles 22:10
- 1 Chronicles 22:11
- 1 Chronicles 22:19
- 1 Chronicles 28:2
- 1 Chronicles 28:3
- 1 Chronicles 28:6
- 1 Chronicles 28:10
- 1 Chronicles 29:16
- 1 Chronicles 29:19
- 2 Chronicles 2:1
- 2 Chronicles 2:3
- 2 Chronicles 2:4
- 2 Chronicles 2:5
- 2 Chronicles 2:6
- 2 Chronicles 2:9
- 2 Chronicles 2:12
- 2 Chronicles 3:1
- 2 Chronicles 3:2
- 2 Chronicles 3:3
- 2 Chronicles 6:2
- 2 Chronicles 6:5
- 2 Chronicles 6:7
- 2 Chronicles 6:8
- 2 Chronicles 6:9
- 2 Chronicles 6:10
- 2 Chronicles 6:18
- 2 Chronicles 6:33
- 2 Chronicles 6:34
- 2 Chronicles 6:38
- 2 Chronicles 8:1
- 2 Chronicles 8:2
- 2 Chronicles 8:4
- 2 Chronicles 8:5
- 2 Chronicles 8:6
- 2 Chronicles 8:11
- 2 Chronicles 8:12
- 2 Chronicles 9:3
- 2 Chronicles 11:5
- 2 Chronicles 11:6
- 2 Chronicles 14:6
- 2 Chronicles 14:7
- 2 Chronicles 16:1
- 2 Chronicles 16:5
- 2 Chronicles 16:6
- 2 Chronicles 17:12
- 2 Chronicles 20:8
- 2 Chronicles 26:2
- 2 Chronicles 26:6
- 2 Chronicles 26:9
- 2 Chronicles 26:10
- 2 Chronicles 27:3
- 2 Chronicles 27:4
- 2 Chronicles 32:5
- 2 Chronicles 33:3
- 2 Chronicles 33:4
- 2 Chronicles 33:5
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
- 2 Chronicles 33:15
- 2 Chronicles 33:16
- 2 Chronicles 33:19
- 2 Chronicles 34:11
- 2 Chronicles 35:3
- 2 Chronicles 36:23
- Ezra 1:2
- Ezra 1:3
- Ezra 1:5
- Ezra 3:2
- Ezra 3:10
- Ezra 4:1
- Ezra 4:2
- Ezra 4:3
- Ezra 4:4
- Nehemiah 2:5
- Nehemiah 2:17
- Nehemiah 2:18
- Nehemiah 2:20
- Nehemiah 3:1
- Nehemiah 3:2
- Nehemiah 3:3
- Nehemiah 3:13
- Nehemiah 3:14
- Nehemiah 3:15
- Nehemiah 4:1
- Nehemiah 4:3
- Nehemiah 4:5
- Nehemiah 4:6
- Nehemiah 4:10
- Nehemiah 4:17
- Nehemiah 4:18
- Nehemiah 6:1
- Nehemiah 6:6
- Nehemiah 7:1
- Nehemiah 7:4
- Nehemiah 12:29
- Job 3:14
- Job 12:14
- Job 20:19
- Job 22:23
- Job 27:18
- Psalms 28:5
- Psalms 51:18
- Psalms 69:35
- Psalms 78:69
- Psalms 89:2
- Psalms 89:4
- Psalms 102:16
- Psalms 118:22
- Psalms 122:3
- Psalms 127:1
- Psalms 147:2
- Proverbs 9:1
- Proverbs 14:1
- Proverbs 24:3
- Proverbs 24:27
- Ecclesiastes 2:4
- Ecclesiastes 3:3
- Ecclesiastes 9:14
- Song of Solomon 4:4
- Song of Solomon 8:9
- Isaiah 5:2
- Isaiah 9:10
- Isaiah 25:2
- Isaiah 44:26
- Isaiah 44:28
- Isaiah 45:13
- Isaiah 58:12
- Isaiah 60:10
- Isaiah 61:4
- Isaiah 65:21
- Isaiah 65:22
- Isaiah 66:1
- Jeremiah 1:10
- Jeremiah 7:31
- Jeremiah 12:16
- Jeremiah 18:9
- Jeremiah 19:5
- Jeremiah 22:13
- Jeremiah 22:14
- Jeremiah 24:6
- Jeremiah 29:5
- Jeremiah 29:28
- Jeremiah 30:18
- Jeremiah 31:4
- Jeremiah 31:28
- Jeremiah 31:38
- Jeremiah 32:31
- Jeremiah 32:35
- Jeremiah 33:7
- Jeremiah 35:7
- Jeremiah 35:9
- Jeremiah 42:10
- Jeremiah 45:4
- Jeremiah 52:4
- Lamentations 3:5
- Ezekiel 4:2
- Ezekiel 11:3
- Ezekiel 13:10
- Ezekiel 16:24
- Ezekiel 16:25
- Ezekiel 16:31
- Ezekiel 17:17
- Ezekiel 21:22
- Ezekiel 26:14
- Ezekiel 27:4
- Ezekiel 27:5
- Ezekiel 28:26
- Ezekiel 36:10
- Ezekiel 36:33
- Ezekiel 36:36
- Ezekiel 39:15
- Daniel 9:25
- Hosea 8:14
- Amos 5:11
- Amos 9:6
- Amos 9:11
- Amos 9:14
- Micah 3:10
- Micah 7:11
- Habakkuk 2:12
- Zephaniah 1:13
- Haggai 1:2
- Haggai 1:8
- Zechariah 1:16
- Zechariah 5:11
- Zechariah 6:12
- Zechariah 6:13
- Zechariah 6:15
- Zechariah 8:9
- Zechariah 9:3
- Malachi 1:4
- Malachi 3:15
Words derived from H1129
אֶבֶן H68
ʼeben — stone
בַּיִת H1004
bayith — place
בֵּן H1121
bên — son: child
בְּנָא H1124
bᵉnâʼ — to build
בִּנּוּי H1131
Binnûwy — Binnui
בָּנִי H1137
Bânîy — Bani
בֻּנִּי H1138
Bunnîy — Bunni
בִּנְיָה H1140
binyâh — building
בְּנָיָה H1141
Bᵉnâyâh — Benaiah
בִּנְיָן H1146
binyân — building
בַּת H1323
bath — daughter
יַבְנְאֵל H2995
Yabnᵉʼêl — Jabneel
יַבְנֶה H2996
Yabneh — Jabneh
יִבְנְיָה H2997
Yibnᵉyâh — Ibneiah
יִבְנִיָּה H2998
Yibnîyâh — Ibnijah
מִבְנֶה H4011
mibneh — structure
מְבֻנַּי H4012
Mᵉbunnay — Mebunnai
תֶּבֶן H8401
teben — straw
תַּבְנִית H8403
tabnîyth — pattern