1 Kings 15:22:121 Kgs.15.22.W12TAB
בָּנָ֖ה
bana
“he built, had built”
- Transliteration
- ba-NA
- Extended
- baa-NAA
- IPA
- /baːˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he built, had built
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-NA
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER ba-NA
- clause
ve-ham-ME-lekh A-sa hish-mi-A et-KOL-ye-hu-DA EN na-KI va-yis-E-u et-av-NE ha-ra-MA ve-et-e-TSE-ha a-SHER ba-NA ba-SHA
- sentence
ve-ham-ME-lekh A-sa hish-mi-A et-KOL-ye-hu-DA EN na-KI va-yis-E-u et-av-NE ha-ra-MA ve-et-e-TSE-ha a-SHER ba-NA ba-SHA va-yi-VEN BAM ham-ME-lekh A-sa et-GE-va bin-ya-MIN ve-et-ham-mits-PA
Exegesis
The relative clause asher banah Baasha {אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָ֖ה בַּעְשָׁ֑א | ʾăšer bānāh baʿāšāʾ} links the materials to Baasha’s prior construction, highlighting a reversal: what one king erected is stripped and reassigned.
Root and etymology
consonantsbet–nun–heh
“to build”
In context — 1 Kings 15:22
King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah—no one was exempt—and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timbers, with which Baasha had built; and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 15:22:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 1 Kings 15:22, so the Hebrew word בָּנָ֖ה (bana) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Kgs.15.22.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.15.22.W12.S1) and character.