2 Chronicles 27:4:22 Chr.27.4.W2TAB
בָּנָ֖ה
bana
“he built”
- Transliteration
- ba-NA
- Extended
- baa-NAA
- IPA
- /baːˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he 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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Word in context
- word
ba-NA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-a-RIM ba-NA
- clause
ve-a-RIM ba-NA be-har-ye-hu-DA
- sentence
ve-a-RIM ba-NA be-har-ye-hu-DA u-ve-kho-ra-SHIM ba-NA bi-ra-yi-ni-YOT u-mig-da-LIM
Exegesis
The verb banah {בָּנָה | bā-nāh} ‘he built’ follows, with the locative expression behar-yehudah {בְּהַר־יְהוּדָה | bə-har–Yə-hû-dāh} ‘in the hill country of Judah’ combining a prepositional prefix with a noun construct and proper name.
Root and etymology
Rootbet–nun–heh
“to build, establish”
In context — 2 Chronicles 27:4
He built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 27:4:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 2 Chronicles 27:4, 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 2 Chr.27.4.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.27.4.W2.S1) and character.