Building
בִּנְיָןStrong’s H1146binyan (bin-yan)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Binyan is the Hebrew word usually translated “structure”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.”
Meaning
- Structure, building
How it's translated
- the structure 5
- and the structure 1
- structure 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 41:12Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:15And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
- Ezekiel 42:1Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
- Ezekiel 42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
- Ezekiel 42:10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
Hebrew dictionary
בִּנְיָן binyan · building
structure, building Aramaic equivalent: bin.yan (בִּנְיָן "building" H1147)
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.