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

Page 7 of 7. 345 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Jeremiah 32:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
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Jeremiah 33:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.
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Jeremiah 35:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
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Jeremiah 35:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
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Jeremiah 42:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.
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Jeremiah 45:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
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Jeremiah 52:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
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Lamentations 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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Ezekiel 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
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Ezekiel 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’
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Ezekiel 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
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Ezekiel 16:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
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Ezekiel 16:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
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Ezekiel 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
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Ezekiel 17:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
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Ezekiel 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
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Source alternate reference: 21.27
Ezekiel 26:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
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Ezekiel 27:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
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Ezekiel 27:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
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Ezekiel 28:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
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Ezekiel 36:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
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Ezekiel 36:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
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Ezekiel 36:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.
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Ezekiel 39:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
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Daniel 9:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
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Hosea 8:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
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Amos 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
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Amos 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
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Amos 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
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Amos 9:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
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Micah 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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Micah 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.
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Habakkuk 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
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Zephaniah 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
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Haggai 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
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Haggai 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
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Zechariah 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
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Zechariah 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”
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Zechariah 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.
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Zechariah 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’
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Zechariah 6:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
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Zechariah 8:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
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Zechariah 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
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Malachi 1:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
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Malachi 3:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
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