בִּנְיָן
binyân · H1147 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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building, structure
Type of construction
ExamplesEzra 5:4 Then we told them accordingly what the names of the men were who were reconstructing this building.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דֵּןthis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בְּנָאbuild 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 2 words
- חׇרְבָּה chorbâh · H2723 · desolation, ruin, uninhabitable place
- Hebrew noun meaning 'ruin' or 'waste place,' the opposite state of a building—a structure destroyed or in ruins versus one standing or being built
- הֲרִיסוּת hărîyçûwth · H2035 · destruction, (in) ruins, ruined
- Hebrew noun meaning 'ruin' or 'destruction,' the opposite result of building—demolition versus construction
In the other Testament 1 word
- οἰκοδομή oikodomḗ · G3619 · building, structure, to build up
- Greek noun meaning 'building' or 'edifice,' the standard LXX and NT equivalent for Hebrew building terminology; can denote both the act of building and the structure built
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Buildings001003002001
- Ezra 5:4 recounts that “we told them accordingly what the names of the men were who were reconstructing this building.”
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1147. binyan [בִּנְיָן] noun [masculine] a building (so ᵑ7 Syriac); — emphatic…
[בִּנְיָן] noun [masculine] a building (so ᵑ7 Syriac); — emphatic בִּנְיָנָא Ezr 5:4.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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