# H1129 בָּנָה

בָּנָה (bânâh), Strong’s H1129: to build (literally and figuratively) KJV: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.. Occurs 375 times.

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*bânâh* — to build (literally and figuratively)

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

Occurs 375 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בָּנָה 373 vb. build
- Qal build
- Niph.
- a be built
- b be rebuilt
- a (fig.) of restored exiles, = established
- b established, made permanent

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=22) — The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
- [Genesis 4:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=17) — Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his…
- [Genesis 8:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=20) — Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings…
- [Genesis 10:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=11) — Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- [Genesis 11:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=4) — They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for…
- [Genesis 11:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=5) — The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- [Genesis 11:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=8) — So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- [Genesis 12:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=7) — The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD…
- [Genesis 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=8) — He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai…
- [Genesis 13:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=18) — Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the…