ba.nah H1129

בָּנָה (ba.nah) means “to build” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

בָּנָה Hebrew · H1129 376 tagged occurrences in 345 verses

Pronunciation guide: baw-naw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1129

בָּנָה · ba.nah · to build

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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively)

KJV glosses: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.

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How translators render H1129

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to build	32
built	27
he built	17
build	12
i have built	11
he had built	8
will build	8
and built	7
rebuilt	7
and build	5
and rebuild	4
building	4
had built	4
to rebuild	4
will rebuild	4
you built	4
are building	3
be rebuilt	3
builders	3
built up	3
he built up	3
i will build	3
let us build	3
rebuilding	3
rebuilt it	3
they have built	3
where he built	3
will be rebuilt	3
am building	2
and fortified	2
builds	2
fortifying	2
had used for building	2
has built	2
have built	2
he rebuilt	2
i built	2
in building	2
in which to build	2
is built up	2
manasseh also built	2
solomon built	2
that i may build	2
the builders	2
the one to build it	2
they will build	2
they will rebuild	2
to be rebuilt	2
to him who builds	2
were building	2
who built	2
who rebuilt	2
and build up	1
and builders	1
and building	1
and built a city	1
and have built	1
and he built	1
and he built up	1
and he worked	1
and i will build	1
and rebuilds	1
and the danites rebuilt	1
and they built	1
and to build	1
and to erect	1
and will rebuild them	1
and you will be rebuilt	1
as a result they built	1
asa built	1
been built	1
been rebuilt	1
began to build	1
build up	1
builds up	1
built it up	1
but we will rebuild	1
but when you built	1
by building	1
cain built	1
can build a family	1
construct	1
constructed	1
construction	1
elijah built	1
for building	1
for rebuilding	1
for the construction	1
had been rebuilt	1
have rebuilt	1
he also built	1
he builds	1
he has besieged	1
he lined	1
he made	1
he partitioned off	1
i am about to build	1
i can build a family	1
i had rebuilt	1
i have indeed built	1
i should build	1
i will build them up	1
i will build you	1
if we have built	1
is built	1
is the one who will build	1
it had been built	1
it was built	1
its builders	1
jacob built	1
laid	1
let it be rebuilt	1
let us rebuild	1
maintain	1
manasseh rebuilt	1
may build	1
moreover you are to build	1
must build	1
of the builders	1
or against us by building	1
prosper	1
rebuild them	1
she will be rebuilt	1
so abram built	1
so he built the temple	1
so isaac built	1
so solomon built	1
so that i may rebuild it	1
so they built	1
so we rebuilt	1
solomon had built	1
that i will build up	1
that is built	1
that will be built	1
that you will build	1
the construction	1
the newly built	1
the one to build	1
then build	1
then he built	1
then i will build	1
then they will be established	1
they built	1
they constructed	1
they had built	1
they rebuilt	1
they will be rebuilt	1
time he had built	1
to be built	1
to build it	1
to form	1
together built up	1
using	1
was constructed	1
was rebuilt	1
we want to build	1
we will build	1
were rebuilding	1
when the builders	1
when you build	1
which you have built	1
while it was being built	1
who build	1
who were rebuilding	1
who will build	1
will set up	1
will they build houses	1
will you build	1
worked	1
you build	1
you have built	1
you may build	1
you shall build	1
you will be restored	1
you will build	1
your builders	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to build	28
built	24
he built	15
and he built	14
build	12
and built	11
and build	7
builded	7
he shall build	7
which i have built	6
and they built	5
thou shalt not build	5
had built	4
that he had built	4
which he built	4
also he built	3
and builded	3
and builders	3
and i will build	3
and they shall build	3
did build	3
had builded	3
let us build	3
shall be builded	3
shall be built	3
was built	3
and buildeth	2
and have built	2
and he builded	2
and to build	2
and will build	2
be built	2
builders	2
building	2
for the building	2
i will build	2
me to build	2
shall build up	2
that he built	2
that i may build	2
thou shalt be built	2
was building	2
we will build	2
which he had built	2
who built	2
will build	2
again i will build	1
against it and build	1
against it and built	1
against it and they built	1
against us in building	1
and build up	1
and building	1
and hast built	1
and he repaired	1
and it cannot be built again	1
and let us build up	1
and next to them builded	1
and one built up	1
and repaired	1
and there builded	1
and there he builded	1
and there he built	1
and there shalt thou build	1
and they builded	1
and they have built	1
and thou shalt build	1
and when the builders	1
are set up	1
are to be built	1
as i built	1
be that i may obtain children	1
before the builders	1
behold i build	1
buildeth	1
but i have built	1
but we will build	1
doth build up	1
even he shall build	1
even that which they build	1
for he built	1
for he built up	1
for her then did he build	1
for the builders	1
for they also built	1
for to build	1
from thence and built	1
hath builded	1
have built	1
he buildeth	1
he even built	1
he hath builded against	1
he that buildeth	1
him to build	1
himself and built up	1
i builded	1
i have surely	1
i then that i should build	1
in building	1
in that thou buildest	1
in that ye have builded	1
in thy room he shall build	1
is builded	1
it and built	1
it shall not be built again	1
made	1
might be built	1
moreover he built	1
neither shall ye build	1
nor to build	1
not build	1
not builded	1
of building	1
of thee shall build	1
of thee to build	1
out of his place and he shall build	1
shall be built up	1
shalt thou build	1
should be built	1
so built	1
so he built	1
so they built	1
that build	1
that hath built	1
that he began to build	1
that i had builded	1
that i have builded	1
that i have built	1
that i may also have children	1
that i will be with thee and build	1
that is to be built	1
that might build	1
that they built	1
that they had built	1
that thou wilt build	1
that we builded	1
that we have built	1
that will not build up	1
that ye build	1
the builders	1
the building	1
thee and thou shalt be built	1
thee to build	1
them and not build them up	1
them in building	1
them to build	1
then shall he set up	1
then shall they be built	1
then will i build	1
therefore and build	1
therein and have built	1
therein and shall build	1
they build up	1
they built	1
they have built	1
they have made	1
they shall also build	1
they shall build	1
they shall not build	1
they which builded	1
thou and build	1
thou buildest	1
thou hast also built	1
thou hast built	1
thou shalt be built up	1
thou shalt build	1
thy builders	1
to be builded	1
to build up	1
to him that buildeth	1
unto him build	1
unto him that buildeth	1
unto me thou shalt not build	1
unto me to build	1
unto them let us build	1
unto them ye have nothing to do with us to build	1
when it was in building	1
when thou buildest	1
wherein he built	1
which built	1
which he builded	1
which he made	1
which i am about to build	1
which i build	1
which i have builded	1
which they builded	1
which thou art in building	1
which thou buildedst	1
which thou hast built	1
which ye built	1
while it was in building	1
why build	1
why have ye not built	1
with her thou shalt build	1
ye have built	1
ye shall be built	1

Verses containing H1129

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1 Chronicles 22:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.
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1 Chronicles 22:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David called for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.
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1 Chronicles 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God,
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1 Chronicles 22:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.
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1 Chronicles 22:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
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1 Chronicles 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, my son, may the LORD be with you, and may you succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as He said you would.
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1 Chronicles 22:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Begin building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
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1 Chronicles 28:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it,
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1 Chronicles 28:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has shed blood.’
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1 Chronicles 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
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1 Chronicles 28:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”
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1 Chronicles 29:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.
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1 Chronicles 29:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
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2 Chronicles 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
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Source alternate reference: 1.18
2 Chronicles 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.
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Source alternate reference: 2.2
2 Chronicles 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
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Source alternate reference: 2.3
2 Chronicles 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
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Source alternate reference: 2.4
2 Chronicles 2:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
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Source alternate reference: 2.5
2 Chronicles 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
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Source alternate reference: 2.8
2 Chronicles 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
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Source alternate reference: 2.11
2 Chronicles 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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2 Chronicles 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
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2 Chronicles 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
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2 Chronicles 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I have built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
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2 Chronicles 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
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2 Chronicles 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
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2 Chronicles 6:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
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2 Chronicles 6:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 6:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
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2 Chronicles 6:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
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2 Chronicles 6:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
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2 Chronicles 6:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
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2 Chronicles 8:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,
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2 Chronicles 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.
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2 Chronicles 8:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
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2 Chronicles 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
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2 Chronicles 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
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2 Chronicles 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
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2 Chronicles 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.
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2 Chronicles 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
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2 Chronicles 11:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
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2 Chronicles 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
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2 Chronicles 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because the land was at peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. In those days no one made war with him, because the LORD had given him rest.
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Source alternate reference: 14.5
2 Chronicles 14:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
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Source alternate reference: 14.6
2 Chronicles 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
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2 Chronicles 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.
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2 Chronicles 16:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.
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2 Chronicles 17:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah
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2 Chronicles 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
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