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# בִּנְיָן

Biblical Aramaic

**a building** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a building [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּנְיָן: building [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a building (so 𝔗 Syriac);—emph. בִּנְיָנָא Ezr 5:4.

### Jastrow 1903

בִּנְיָן: building, structure; erection standard rule human frame, skeleton. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** building, structure; erection. Succ. 51ᵇ מי שלא ראה בה"מ בבִנְיָנוֹ whoever has not seen the Temple in its finished state, expl. ibid. בִּנְיַן הורדוס the Herodian Temple (Ms. M. … ראה בנין בה"מ; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).—אַמַּת הב׳, v. אַמָּה.—Sabb. 102ᵇ דרך ב׳ בכן such kind of labor belongs to builders’ work. Ib. דמי לב׳ it looks like builders’ work; a. fr.—בִּנְיַן אב standard rule, v. אָב; v. Ḥull. 78ᵇ, B. Kam. 77ᵇ זה בנה אב this (Ex. XII, 5) forms the rule, wherever שה is used &c. (v. Tosaf. a. l.).—Sabb. 114ᵃ בִּנְיָנוֹ של עולם the preservation of the (mental and moral) world. human frame, skeleton. Ohol. II, 1 רוב בניינו the greater portion of a corpse as to size of limbs, contrad. to רוב מניינו the larger as to the number of joints and limbs.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/#tree)

אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* then as.follows we.said to them what? \[are\].they the.names of the.men who this the building \[are\].building

*JPS 1917:* 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5d9_5b8_5df/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).