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# בִּנְיָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1146

**structure** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

structure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1146/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּנְיָן: n.m. structure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1146/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. structure (loan-word = ܒܶܢܝܳܢ according to LagBN 205) applied to enclosing wall of Ezekiel’s temple Ez 40:5; to rear-building of same 41:12(×2), 15, but read prob. בִּנְיָה q.v.; so Sm Co; appar. to whole temple 42:1, 10 (Co reads הבית); cf. v 5 (del. Co);—Sm refers v 1 to enclosing wall, vid. a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the structure (4); structure (2); \[the\] structure (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 42:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.10/#tree)

בְּרֹ֣חַב ׀ גֶּ֣דֶר הֶחָצֵ֗ר דֶּ֧רֶךְ הַקָּדִ֛ים אֶל־פְּנֵ֧י הַגִּזְרָ֛ה וְאֶל־פְּנֵ֥י הַבִּנְיָ֖ן לְשָׁכֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[were\].in the.breadth of.the.wall of the.courtyard the.direction of the.east to the.face of the.separate.place and to the.face of the.structure rooms

*JPS 1917:* In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers,

[Ezekiel 42:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.5/#tree)

וְהַלְּשָׁכ֥וֹת הָעֶלְיוֹנֹ֖ת קְצֻר֑וֹת כִּֽי־יוֹכְל֨וּ אַתִּיקִ֜ים מֵהֵ֗נָה מֵֽהַתַּחְתֹּנ֛וֹת וּמֵהַתִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת בִּנְיָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the rooms (the) upper \[were\].short (dm) they.consumed galleries from them more than the.lower.\[rooms\] and more than the.middle.\[rooms\] \[the\].structure

*JPS 1917:* Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1146.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1146/): 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).