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Words
בָּנָה H1129
- Home gloss
- build
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- make
- Note
- Of cities and houses (4:17, Cain "was building a city"; 1 Kgs 6); with צֵלָע "side," the words of the temple's side-chambers (1 Kgs 6:5, 8). Kept apart from יָצַר "shape" and עָשָׂה "make." b. Niddah 45b hears בִּינָה "understanding" in it.
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (10)
- 2:22 And Elohim built the side that he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- 4:17 And Cain knew his woman, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he was building a city, and he called the name of the city like the name of his son, Enoch.
- 8:20 And Noah built an altar to , and took from every pure beast and from every pure flyer, and brought up ascents on the altar.
- 10:11 From that land Assyria went out and built Nineveh and Rehoboth City and Calah,
- 11:4 And they said, "Up, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, and its head in the skies; and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we scatter over the face of all the land."
- 11:5 And went down to see the city and the tower which the sons of the human had built.
- 11:8 And scattered them from there over the face of all the land, and they left off building the city.
- 12:7 And was seen by Abram, and he said, "To your seed I will give this land." And he built there an altar to , who was seen by him.
- 12:8 And he moved on from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and stretched out his tent, Bethel from the sea and Ai from the east; and he built there an altar to , and called on the name of .
- 13:18 And Abram moved tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron; and he built there an altar to .