Words the Bible translates as build up
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 up: to strengthen, support, and develop a person or a community in faith and love
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- to build a physical structure: to construct a house, tower, barn, tomb, or temple
- banahבָּנָהto build: to raise a structure out of parts and materials, and so to establish something meant to stand.
- 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
- gadarגָּדַרto wall up: to stack stones into a barrier, whether to close a way shut or to close a gap in a wall that has fallen in.
- epoikodomeōἐποικοδομέωto build on what is already standing: to add further construction to a foundation that has already been laid.
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