Building
בִּנְיָהStrong’s H1140binyah (bin-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Binyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “structure”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;”
Meaning
- Structure, building
How it's translated
- and the structure 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בִּנְיָה binyah · building
structure, building
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “building” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUILD'ING, participle present
tense bild'ing. Framing and erecting; resting on.
All definitions and other forms of “building”
BUILD'ING, noun
bild'ing. A fabric or edifice constructed for use or convenience, as a house, a church, a shop, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.