binyan · building

What it means

binyan (בִּנְיָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “building”.

A building, a construction.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large structure, like the buildings of the temple complex in Ezekiel's vision.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• building ×6
• structure ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezekiel 40:5

  And look, a wall outside the house all around, and in the hand of the man the measuring reed of six cubits, each a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the structure, one reed, and the height, one reed.

• Ezekiel 41:12

  And the building that was in front of the separate area, on the side toward the sea, seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building five cubits wide all around, and its length ninety cubits.

• Ezekiel 41:15

  And he measured the length of the building in front of the separate area that was at its back, and its terraces on this side and on that side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple and the porticoes of the court;

• Ezekiel 42:1

  And he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north, and he brought me to the chamber that was opposite the separate area and that was opposite the building, toward the north.

• Ezekiel 42:5

  And the upper chambers were shorter, because the terraces took space from them more than from the lower ones and the middle ones of the building.

• Ezekiel 42:10

  In the width of the fence of the court, toward the east, in front of the separate area and in front of the building, there were chambers.

And 1 more times.