Words the Bible translates as build
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- oikodomeōοἰκοδομέωto build a physical structure: to construct a house, tower, barn, tomb, or temple
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- to build up: to strengthen, support, and develop a person or a community in faith and love
- banahבָּנָהto build: to raise a structure out of parts and materials, and so to establish something meant to stand.
- kataskeuazōκατασκευάζωto put something together and fit it out so that it stands finished and ready for use: to build, to furnish, to make ready in advance.
- benahבְּנָהto build: to put up a physical structure such as a temple, house, or city
- salalסָלַלto heap earth and stone up high: to build a raised road or ramp, or to pile something into a mound
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- to lift someone or something high: to prize it, or to set yourself up over another
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Every English meaning beginning with B is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.