banah – to build

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong’s #1129: banah (pronounced baw-naw’)

a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively):–(begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ba?na?h

1) to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to build, rebuild

1a2) to build a house (i.e., establish a family)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be built

1b2) to be rebuilt

1b3) established (of restored exiles) (figuratively)

1b4) established (made permanent)

1b5) to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 376 times

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