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title: בִּנְיָן — structure · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּנְיָן (1146), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: structure. BDB 1906: n.m. structure. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּנְיָן

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«בִּנְיָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **structure** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 1146 · **BDB:** בִּנְיָן

### Glosses

the.structure (4); structure (2); \[the\].structure (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּנְיָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1146/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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,

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

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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.

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