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binyah

בִּנְיָה

HebrewH1140“building”

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Ezk 41:13

Root family

banahבָּנָהto build376H1129

Main variant

בִּנְיָן“building”H1146

The word binyah is the feminine spelling of the same noun binyan, "a structure, a building," and it appears only once, in Ezekiel 41:13. It names the very same western building that the surrounding verses call binyan: verse 12 measures the binyan, verse 13 measures the binyah, and verse 15 measures the binyan again. Because the two spellings point at one structure inside three consecutive verses, they are one word with two endings rather than two different words, and some scholars treat the shorter spelling here as a copying slip for the usual one.

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בִּנְיָן“building”The word binyan, "a structure, a building," is the ordinary noun for something that has been built. It appears seven times, all inside Ezekiel's long guided tour of the temple, where it names the solid mass of the outer wall and then the large building standing west of the temple that the guide keeps using as a landmark. It is the fuller and better-known form of this noun, and it survives into modern Hebrew as the everyday word for a building.

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