Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Build
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Galatians 2:18
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
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Genesis
22 verses
Exodus
11 verses
Numbers
44 verses
Deuteronomy
55 verses
Joshua
22 verses
Judges
11 verses
Ruth
11 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
2 Samuel
55 verses
1 Kings
1715 verses
1 Chronicles
1919 verses
2 Chronicles
1917 verses
Ezra
1312 verses
Nehemiah
77 verses
Psalms
87 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Song of Solomon
11 verses
Isaiah
88 verses
Jeremiah
1212 verses
Ezekiel
55 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Amos
22 verses
Micah
11 verses
Zephaniah
11 verses
Haggai
11 verses
Zechariah
55 verses
Malachi
21 verses
Matthew
33 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
55 verses
Acts
43 verses
Romans
11 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
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בָּנָה
bânâh · baw-naw'
130 times translated as this KJV form376 total Strong's occurrences
to build (literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 11:4Strong's last: Malachi 1:4
Open full H1129 profile →οἰκοδομέω
oikodoméō · oy-kod-om-eh'-o
12 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
to be a house-builder, i.e. construct or (figuratively) confirm
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be in) build(-er, -ing, up), edify, embolden.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 16:18Strong's last: Galatians 2:18
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bᵉnâʼ · ben-aw'
7 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
to build
Strong's KJV usage: build, make.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 5:2Strong's last: Ezra 6:7
Open full H1124 profile →ἐποικοδομέω
epoikodoméō · ep-oy-kod-om-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to build upon, i.e. (figuratively) to rear up
Strong's KJV usage: :--build thereon (thereupon, on, upon).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 3:12Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 3:12
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H1129
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
no direct Strong's tag
Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
H1129
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
H1129
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
H1129
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
English meaning and historical usage.
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build
BUILD,
BILD, verb transitive bild; preterit tense built; participle passive built, pronounced bilt. The regular preterit tense and participle passive builded, is sometimes used.
1. To frame, construct, and raise, as an edifice or fabric of almost any kind, as a house, barn, shop, ship or vessel, a wall, or other structure of art; to unite materials into a regular structure for use or convenience.
2. To raise by art; to frame or shape into a particular form; as, to build up a head dress in a cone.
3. To raise any thing on a support or foundation; as, to build our hopes on air.
4. In scripture, to increase and strengthen; to cement and knit together; to settle or establish and preserve. Acts 20:32. Ephesians 2:22. i Sam. 2.35.
BUILD, verb intransitive bild. To exercise the art, or practice the business of building.
To build to plant, whatever you intend.
1. To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation; as, to build on the opinions of others.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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